News & VIEWS

Explore our news, views and reflections. See also our Stories pages.

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From “Me” to “We”

Jo and Jenny look at the impact of individualistic culture, how it affects how we do social action, and share an update on our Common Good Schools programme…

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The Meaning of Good

T4CG Newsletter for Summer 2023. Choosing good calls us into a life-giving story of local relationships, rejecting the false claims of anti-humanism…

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The Italian Connection

A group of Italian school children come to Liverpool and every aspect of their visit was the result of friendship…

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A Civilisation of Love

T4CG Newsletter for Pentecost 2023. Our economy is dysfunctional: Catholic social thought inspires us to argue for reform.…

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Schools, the Common Good and the Holy Spirit

Jo explores how schools filled with the Holy Spirit can seed renewal in the local by building relationships, and she shares the latest on our schools network…

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The Importance of Relationships

The importance of relationships in building common good requires a wider understanding of diversity, as Jo Stow reports…

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Freedom

T4CG Newsletter for Easter 2023 includes a warning to refuse the false freedoms of the new “Egypt”, the cult of neoliberalism…

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Young people and the desire for connection

Trends show a sharp decline in social trust among young people. Our Common Good Schools is an antidote, as Jo Stow reports…

Anticipation

T4CG Newsletter for Christmas 2022. Anticipation is the right posture for this time of upheaval.…

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Time to get real

T4CG Newsletter for November 2022. This is a time between eras: the old is dying and the new is emerging..…

The future of UK Christian social action
As poverty gets worse, how should the church respond?Read More
Poverty – under our own roof
For Lent, Jo Stow encourages schools to take a more relational approach to charity and to notice hidden poverty in the classroom Read More
T4CG at Word on Fire
Jenny Sinclair speaks about the Bible, the common good and Catholic Social Teaching at the Word on Fire conference 2025Read More
Staying Human: Reimagining the Spirit of the Commons
In the emerging new era, people feel a loss of agency. How should the church respond? Luke Bretherton gives the first T4CG public lecture of 2025Read More
Forgive each other
The T4CG Lent 2025 Newsletter. In this time of seismic change, we must resist division and work togetherRead More