When I opened my mailbox and saw my voter registration card, my heart
silently wept with joy. I would finally have the opportunity to express
myself, as a voter, citizen and disciple.

The Convention for the Common Good, brought over 800 Catholics and faith leaders from across the nation together in Philadelphia this summer to engage with elected officials and develop a Platform for the Common Good. The Convention for the Common Good was only the beginning…we invite you to join the movement.

"Despite its lofty language and current confidence building efforts, the problems of the WTO are deeply rooted in a culture and style of negotiations that militate against its own stated goals. It is a culture driven by self-interest, competition, inequality, litigiousness and punitiveness (sanctions). Nor, does it have a moral vision that would move it beyond its current stagnation. A commitment to a global common good would provide such a moral vision. The commitment to a common good has a long history in Catholic Social Teaching. As the world has become more integrated economically and technologically, the scope of the common good is global. It goes beyond identifying economic success of a nation by its GDP (Gross Domestic Products) and raises the question of how the goods of a society and of the world are distributed among all nations and persons. The global common good in CST is a social reality to which all persons contribute and in which all persons share through participation. That social reality includes the political, economic, social, cultural and environmental context of people's and societies' lives. "