A new Catholic conference in Toronto is set to explore what its organisers describe as one of the defining crises of modern public life: the breakdown of the social covenant and the erosion of a shared sense of human dignity. The inaugural gathering, titled “Restoring the Covenant: Catholic Social Teaching as Common Social Ground”, will take place on May 30 at De La Salle Oaklands College.
The event is being launched by the Canadian organisation Catholic Conscience as the first in a planned annual series under the wider theme “Building a Culture of Life and Dignity”. Its stated aim is to recover Catholic social teaching not as a private body of devotional reflection, but as a public grammar for civic renewal in a society increasingly marked by fragmentation, moral uncertainty and a weakening of common purpose.
