The fact that our criminal justice system is broken is regularly distracted by high profile individual cases of the need to ‘lock them up’ regardless of the conditions or provisions for eventual release. The media driven cry to ‘protect the public’ trumps all other considerations. Yet it is a widely acknowledged reality that in Britain […]
CSAN
Working for a better Future?
On May 1st (appropriately) I attended a half day event in Manchester organised by CSAN (Caritas Social Action Network) that explored the relations between Catholic Social Teaching and thought, relationships with trade unions and what the future of work might hold. There was much hearking back to Cardinal Manning and his influence over Rerum Novarum […]