“The job crisis in the U.S. and globally is not only an economic crisis, it is a moral crisis,” argues Maria Riley in this three page reflection. Riley argues that the convergence of multiple...
00Christopher Kerrhttps://educationforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/efj-680x312-transparent.pngChristopher Kerr2011-08-23 15:02:332018-07-29 16:27:49Jobs: A Moral Crisis
Continued high rates of unemployment have spurred many congregations, including Catholic parishes, to organize support for the emotional and material needs of workers. Chicago-based Interfaith Worker...
Since the 1840s, immigration to the U.S. was increasingly from Catholic countries, beginning with the Irish Famine, continuing with displaced persons from Eastern Europe after World War II and with...
00Christopher Kerrhttps://educationforjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/efj-680x312-transparent.pngChristopher Kerr2011-08-23 14:46:092018-07-29 16:52:17People of God on the Move: Catholic Immigration in the U.S.
This two-page background piece on the Church's Commitment to Workers makes an ideal parish bulletin. It includes a brief summary of the Knights of Labor, Cardinal Gibbons intervention on the...
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A one-page prayer in preparation for and celebration of Labor Day.
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This two-page resource provides recent statistics on poverty, hunger, unemployment, and other ongoing challenges as reported in the 2011 UN Millennium Development Goals Update.
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In anticipation of Speaker of the House John Boehner's commencement address to the Catholic University of America's graduates in the spring of 2011, Catholic leaders wrote an open letter to the...
This 3-page article, written by the Executive Director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, New Orleans, looks at the tax burden of Americans in contrast with other nations.
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The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in its May 2011 Report, states, "...if we want justice and peace, we must protectthe habitat that sustains us." This two-page fact sheet provides highlights of the...
This two-page prayer service is designed as a commissioning service and a sending forth at the conclusion of the academic semester or school year. It can be used for students or faculty. It...
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This fact sheet includes suggestions for finding summer jobs that support the green economy.
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This two-page prayer service includes a suitable print-ready prayer service to be used in times of natural disaster. The prayer service focuses on praying in solidarity with our brothers and sisters...
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Jobs: A Moral Crisis
Faith Communities Respond to Unemployment
People of God on the Move: Catholic Immigration in the U.S.
The U.S. Church's Commitment to Workers
Prayer for Labor Day
Ending Global Poverty: UN MDG Update
CST in the News
U.S. Taxes Are Low By Comparison
2011 Vatican Report on Climate Change
Commissioning Prayer Service at the Conclusion of the Academic Year
Going Green with a Summer Job
Prayer Service in Times of Natural Disaster