Caritas Westminster launches Catholic Social Teaching programme

Yesterday, 1 December, Caritas Westminster launched Love in Action, a programme aimed at introducing the principles of Catholic Social Teaching (CST) to parishes and schools. Designed to be used with a variety of groups, the resources offer a programme to educate, inspire and help parishes to discern the needs of their local area, and to focus on how to put love into action.

The launch at Our Lady of Victories in Kensington, gave participants a chance to look at the resources as well as interact with them through a series of activities.

Chair of Caritas Westminster Bishop Paul MacAleenan, introduced the launch by explaining that Love in Action is the 'perfect expression of Caritas'. He went on to say that the programme provides accompaniment for parishes 'walking' them through Catholic social teaching.

The author Danny Curtin gave the background and inspiration for developing the materials and Fr Shaun Middleton from St John Fisher North Harrow explained how the scheme unfolded in his parish and school.

The resources are free and available for download on the website: www.stepforwardinlove.org

Parishes and schools requiring support to use the materials can contact the Caritas team using the following link caritaswestminster@rcdow.org.uk

The resources have been developed with the help of Caritas Social Action Network (CSAN) and other Caritas agencies.