Advocacy Ministry

The Catholic Church has an active interest in creating public policy that protects the vulnerable and provides opportunities for poor persons to meet their own human needs. The Church can effectively shape a public policy that is more caring and just when many of our Catholic people, including our teenagers, are communicating their views to elected officials. The Social Ministry Committee will therefore be encouraged and trained to establish a legislative network in the parish. These networks, coordinated at the diocesan level, will write letters, make phone calls, send e-mails, attend lobby day in Sacramento, and in other appropriate ways, communicate to public officials at county, state and federal levels Catholic positions on issues of interest to the whole Church. The networks will work on issues on which the diocesan bishops have established policy.

Last Update April 27, 2007