Weapons vs. Well-Being in India and Pakistan

This 3-page resource explains the history of the conflict between India and Pakistan over Kashmir, the current situation, and details of nuclear weapons build-up at the expense of the humanitarian...

Stations of the Cross: A Reflection on Debt

Linda Jones' Stations of the Cross help us to reflect on the enormous debt that burdens developing countries and their people across the world.

Prayer Service for Restoration and Healing

This prayer services, based on quotes from CST, victims of violence and well-respected figures, prayers for healing, restoration, social change, and an end to the death penalty.

CST, Interfaith Quotes and the Death Penalty

This interactive activity compares quotes from Catholic Social Teaching, other faiths, and the U.S. Supreme Court Justices on the death penalty.

India: Children and Gender Discrimination

This is one of six case studies that focuses on justice issues that impact children around the world. This case study focuses on children and gender discrimination in India. It can be used during...

The Philippines: Children and Sex Trafficking

This is one of six case studies that focuses on justice issues that impact children around the world. This case study focuses on children and sex trafficking in the Philippines. It can be used during...

Nepal: Children, Trade and Child Labor

This is one of six case studies that focuses on justice issues that impact children around the world. This case study focuses on children, trade and child labor in Nepal.

Eritrea: Children and Hunger

This is one of six case studies that focuses on justice issues that impact children around the world. This case study focuses on children and hunger in Eritrea. It can be used during Lent along with...

Prayer for the Children of the World

This prayer, which reflects on both the suffering and Resurrection of children around the world, can be used on Ash Wednesday to introduce the Lenten case studies on children, below. This prayer and...

Development Aid in Poor Countries

Providing assistance and development aid to poor countries has long been a concern of the Church. This two-page fact sheet defines types of short-term and long-term aid to poor countries and explains...

Poverty, Disasters and Development

The Option for the Poor is central principle of the Church's social teaching and relevant in disasters such as the tsunami in South East Asia. This unit consists of fact sheets on the poverty and...

Poverty and Natural Disasters: the South East Asian Tsunami

This two-page fact sheet is on the poverty in the Tsunami-impacted countries and how poor countries are effected by natural disasters.