Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace

The Second Vatican Council had proposed the creation of a body of the universal Church whose role would be "to stimulate the Catholic Community to foster progress in needy regions and social justice on the international scene". It was in reply to this request that Pope Paul VI established the Pontifical Commission "Justitia et Pax" by a Motu Proprio dated 6 January 1967 (Catholicam Christi Ecclesiam). When the Apostolic Constitution Pastor Bonus of 28 June 1988 reorganized the Roman Curia, Pope John Paul II changed its name from Commission to Pontifical Council and reconfirmed the general lines of its work. == Objectives and mandate ==

Pastor Bonus defined the objectives and mandate of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace in the following terms: ==Structure==

On Saturday, May 16, 2015, Pope Francis named the Reverend Father Timothy Radcliffe, O.P., Director of the Las Casas Institute of Blackfriars in Oxford, England, which does studies on social justice and human rights, as one of the Consultors. Presidents • Maurice Roy (6 January 1967 - 16 December 1976) • Bernardin Gantin (15 December 1976 - 8 April 1984) • Roger Etchegaray (8 April 1984 - 24 June 1998) • François-Xavier Nguyễn Văn Thuận (24 June 1998 - 16 September 2002) • Renato Martino (1 October 2002 - 24 October 2009) • Peter Turkson (24 October 2009 - 1 January 2017) Secretaries • Joseph Gremillion (1966–1974) • Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo (1976 – 5 May 1977) • Roger Joseph Heckel, S.J. (1977 – 27 March 1980) • Jan Pieter Schotte, C.I.C.M. (27 June 1980 – 20 December 1983) • Diarmuid Martin (1994 – 17 January 2001) • Giampaolo Crepaldi (3 March 2001 – 4 July 2009) • Mario Toso, S.D.B. (22 October 2009 - 19 January 2015) ==Activities==

There was a two-day (June 16 and 17), 2011 "Executive Summit on Ethics for the Business World", which examined Christian views, from the Catholic perspective of Pope Benedict XVI's on financial ethics and possible positive Christian-based alternatives to contemporary status quo secular best practices in the field. The summit was co-hosted by the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University and the Fidelis International Institute, as well as the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. According to an online news story on the conference by Carol Glatz of Catholic News Service, on Friday, June 17, 2011: ==See also==