Reflection

Pope Francis's 2016 World Day of Peace Message

This Smilebox reflection invites us to reflect on Pope Francis’s 2016 World Day of Peace Message. His words remind us that we are called to make compassion, love, mercy, and solidarity a true way...
Reflection

Catholic Social Thought and Racism

Fr. Fred Kammer, S.J., reflects on the sin of racism and important Church documents that call us to conversion, to respect the rights, dignity, equality, and sanctity of racially different...
Reflection

Grace Heard Singing: Sister Thea Bowman

This resource is an introduction to the gifts Sr. Thea Bowman shared with the Church as she embodied the joy and celebration of African American worship.  
Reflection

Underside of History: “What Can I Do?” A Reflection on the Life of Brother James (Hermano Santiago) Miller, F.S.C.

Hermano Santiago (Brother James Miller, F.S.C.) lived a life in solidarity with the people of Nicaragua and Guatemala until February 13, 1982 when he was shot dead. Brother Paul Joslin, F.S.C., a...
Toolbox

Social Justice

This collection of resources relates to the general theme of social justice. Many of them have been revised and reformatted for your use.
Litany

Litany: Remembering Fr. Pedro Arrupe, S.J.

Father Pedro Arrupe, S.J., a great missionary, a man on fire promoted compassion through structural change. He was a pioneer in urging the combination of pastoral concern, biblical reflection, and...
Prayer Service

2016 World Day of Peace Message

Sister Sally Ann Brickner, O.S.F. offers this prayer service to commemorate the theme, “Overcome Indifference and Win Peace” in Pope Francis’s 2016 World Day of Peace Message.
Prayer

Let Justice Roll Down

In this time where injustice and violence seem to blanket the world, this prayer yearns for justice and peace to spring up and bring the flourishing of God’s grace to our earth once again.
Prayer

Prayer to Mary, Mother of Silence

In this prayer, Pope Francis invites us to pray to our Mother of Silence by asking her to “Lift us from the torpor of laziness, pettiness, and defeatism.”  This prayer is in both English and...
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Film Discussion Guide

DREAM ON

In the film DREAM ON, political comedian John Fugelsang retraces the journey of Alexis de Tocqueville, whose study of our young country in 1831 came to define America as a place where anyone could...
Lectionary Reflection

Second Sunday in Ordinary Time [c] January 17, 2016

Second Sunday of Ordinary Time [c] January 17, 2016
Lectionary Reflection

The Baptism of Jesus [c] January 10, 2016

The Baptism of Jesus [c] January 10, 2016