Climate Change: Theological Reflections

This PowerPoint presentation on Climate Change offers theological points for reflection and connection. God's creation reveals God's glory. Stewardship is a call to reverence all that God has...
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Reflection

Thomas Merton & Education of the Whole Person

Merton's thoughts on education, as they are explicitly recorded, are provocative, but brief and general. He summarized in a letter that education "means the formation of the whole person"; he...
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Interactive Advent Calendar 2009

This "clickable" Advent Calendar provides prayer and reflection for each day of Advent. Using reconciliation as our lens, we shine a light on places in our own hearts and in our world where...
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The Principle of Gratuitousness in "Caritas in Veritate"

In the encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate", Pope Benedict XVI explores the 'Logic of Gift' and the principle of gratuitousness. This principle runs through other social encyclicals and receives more...
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Lesson Plan

Planning Worksheet for Integrating Catholic Social Teaching across the Curriculum

This four-page resource is an integration planning worksheet to help in your creation, design and planning of interdisciplinary lessons and Catholic social teaching. Planning worksheets can be used...
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Caritas in Veritate: Human Development Pyramid

Pope Benedict’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth) is an anniversary document marking the 40th anniversary of Populorum Progressio issued by Pope Paul VI in 1967. Benedict notes, “In...
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Advent Resource Guide 2009

This two-page resource guide provides a quick reference list of the Advent resources that can be found on the Education for Justice site. Advent resources include Lectionary reflections for each...
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Advent Week Four: Make room for ...Peace on Earth

During this last week of Advent, we reflect on the situation in the Holy Land, and the necessity of groups to forgive, reconcile and work with other groups to ensure bloodshed ends and peace is...
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Advent Week Three: Make room for Peace between Groups

During this third week of Advent, we are invited to reflect on individuals who have been able to move from anger at groups or communities whose violence has touched their lives.  To move from...
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Advent Week One: Making Room for Peace...in our hearts

Make room for peace in our hearts.  During this first week of Advent,  the wisdom of the Psalms, the life of Dorothy Day and the poetry of Antonio Machado can help us focus on the first...
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Advent Week Two: Making Room for Peace...between individuals

During this second week of Advent, we reflect on forgiveness between individuals. We all are wounded by others in some way, from small hurts to terrible crimes, and the work of forgiveness must...
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On the Line (School of the Americas)

ON THE LINE is an inside look at the people behind one of the largest nonviolent movements in America today: the movement to close the School of the Americas/WHINSEC, a U.S. Army school that trains...
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