“Social justice” generally means socialism, or economic “justice” or redistributionist “justice”, or the notion that one’s individual christian duty to engage in charity to the less fortunate carries with it an obligation to change social structures (e.g., through the government), to address economic inequality.
I was educated in a catholic school, and social justice was taught as a junior level theology class. The philosophy came straight from religious left Catholic liberation theology, which holds that we have an individual moral duty to address inequality through government action.
I would teach my daughter that justice is just plain old justice, i.e., anglo-american law, which teaches that people should abide by their contracts, not initiate physical force against one another, and that people are equal under the law, but that equality of outcome is not guaranteed to anyone, nor should it be.
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I took a class given by some Catholic sisters, and we covered liberation theology, but it was presented in a vague way, which I didn't really understand. Perhaps because the rest of the people were Catholic-school educated and they all understood the same buzzwords that were used, but which weren't understandable to me.
I told the sisters that it sounded a lot like communism, which went over not-so-well.