Catholic Social Thought and Biblical Roots

Fr. Fred Kammer, SJ, discusses the biblical roots of Catholic Social Teaching, in the Old as well as the New Testament. The prophetic call to denounce injustice, the concept of the Jubilee and the...
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Prayer Service: In A Time of Community Distress

In a time of misunderstanding, racism, and violence, we turn to a psalm of lament to help us call for God’s mercy on all of us, just as he rained down manna in the wilderness.  Our vocation as...
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Prayer Service for Christian Unity

The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is celebrated from the 18th-25th of January each year. It is a significant time during which churches around the world express their longing for and commitment...
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Prayer for the New Year

This prayer invites us to "stretch our souls" in the year ahead, seeing new possibilities for solidarity and hope.  
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Prayer for Migrants (English and Spanish)

With the global community, we pray for those who see home and all it means disappear as they flee violence, injustice, and poverty. We pray for those weary travelers who now live in daily...
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Prayer to End Human Trafficking

On January 11, Human Trafficking Awareness Day, we join with the global community in remembering all those who fall victim to human trafficking and to the effects of contemporary slavery which are...
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Prayer for Christian Unity

We pray to bring unity to our human community. We ask that we be healed and made whole as the family of God; we pray to draw deeper into communion with God and one another.  
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Vocation to Social Mission

This prayer is based on the Bishops' Conference document on Sacraments and Social Mission. It reflects on the meaning of the call of Baptism and Confirmation, and on the experience and challenge of...
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Christmas Prayer: Help Us See You

This prayer for the Christmas season invites us to respond to the signs of the times and to see the Christ Child in the sick, the wounded, the oppressed, and the vulnerable.  

Catholic Social Thought and Modern CST

This resource relates to Fr. Fred Kammer's short video series on Catholic Social Teaching (YouTube). Fr. Kammer discusses how the modern tradition began in 1891 and how the earlier Church teaching on...

E-Team

In their award-winning documentary E-Team, directors Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman tell the stories of four human rights activists who travel to some of the most dangerous places in the world in...
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Human Rights: Supporting Human Dignity

December 10 is the anniversary of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, a document St. John Paul II praised for its support of human dignity for all members of the global community. This...