Australian Bishops’ Social Justice Statement: Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Teaching
The Vatican News portal reports on a statement from the Australian “Catholic” “Bishops” Conference (ACBC) addressing the “cost of living crisis,” urging society to “work for the common good” through material aid and policy advocacy. ACBC president Timothy Costelloe claims the document invites reflection “with faith, hope and love” while emphasizing statistics about housing insecurity, food shortages, and wage stagnation. The statement invokes four principles of what it labels “Catholic social teaching”—dignity, common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity—to justify state-led economic intervention and communal activism.


