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Justice is a virtue, one of the cardinal moral virtues, so I am assuming you are asking how the Catholic Church works for social justice. Social justice is the "respect for the human person and the rights which flow from human dignity and guarantee it. Society must provide the conditions that allow people to obtain what is their due, according to their nature and vocation. - from the Catechism Glossary.
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Social justice is something that is supposed to come from the individual Christian, and every Christian is responsible for social justice in his community, his country, etc. Please note that this is NOT the responsibility of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is commissioned by Our Blessed Lord, Jesus Christ, as His Body, to bring Him to people, to bring His grace and sacraments to the people, and to bring the people to Him. The laity, the common Christian layman is responsible as part of his vocation as a Christian to bring about "social justice" first of all in his daily life, and then, by extension, into his society. So social justice is not something that the Church is primarily involved in, it is the other way around. The Church is to instruct people in their duties as Christians which involves loving every single person (without exception) as they are to love God. An individual parish or diocese may get involved in social justice causes, but this is a secondary consideration for them AS a parish or diocese, it is a primary consideration for the individual Christian.
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from The Catechism of the Catholic Church, second edition, English translation 1994
1928 Society ensures social justice when it provides the conditions that allow associations or individuals to obtain what is their due, according to their nature and their vocation. Social justice is linked to the common good and the exercise of authority. . 1931 Respect for the human person proceeds by way of respect for the principle that "everyone should look upon his neighbor (without any exception) as 'another self,' above all bearing in mind his life and the means necessary for living it with dignity." (Gaudium et spes 27 § 1.) No legislation could by itself do away with the fears, prejudices, and attitudes of pride and selfishness which obstruct the establishment of truly fraternal societies. Such behavior will cease only through the charity that finds in every man a "neighbor," a brother.
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Justice: The cardinal moral virtue which consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God and to neighbor (1807). Original justice refers to the state of holiness in which God created our first parents (375). Commutative justice, which obliges respect for the rights of the other, is required by the seventh commandment; it is distinguished from legal justice, which concerns what the citizen owes to the community, and distributive justice, which regulates what the community owes its citizens in proportion to their contributions and needs (2411). See Social Justice
Social Justice: the respect for the human person and the rights which flow from human dignity and guarantee it. Society must provide the conditions that allow people to obtain what is their due, according to their nature and vocation (1928, 1931)
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