Catholic Social Tradition Principles

Activity

World Water Day

This simple board game celebrates World Water Day (March 22). The game's objectives are to help players learn more about local and global water issues, water rights alongside Catholic Social...
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Lesson Plan

Christian Peacemaking

Christian Peacemaking weaves together conflict analysis and conflict transformation skills with Gospel values to empower students to stand up for themselves and to love their enemy neighbor in...
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Video

Lenten Journey Video Prayer

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Prayer

Prayer on the Lenten Journey

This prayer for Lent invites us to embrace the darkness of Christ’s suffering and the suffering of our world today, yet to always journey forward towards the light of our...
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Film Discussion Guide

Webinar: Slavery, the Catholic Church, and Lessons for Today

In this presentation, Fr. Chris Kellerman, S.J., will explain the basics of the Catholic Church’s historical involvement with slaveholding and the Atlantic slave trade, drawing lessons from this...
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Reflection

Catholic Nonviolence Initiative Lecture Series

This resource is shared from the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative Lecture Series. The series and more information can also be found here - https://cniseries.info The video edits and summaries are...
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Prayer

In Memory of Japanese Internment Camps

On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued an executive order that authorized the evacuation of all persons who were deemed a threat to national security along the West Coast to be...
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Prayer

Lenten Prayer for Peace

Lenten Prayer for Peace by Fr. John Dear is a powerful Catholic prayer inviting believers to embrace the nonviolence of Jesus during the sacred season of Lent. Rooted in the Gospel and the call to...
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Activity

Discussion on Ending the Death Penalty with Sr. Helen Prejean

This guide is for use after viewing a recorded conversation around the death penalty, hosted by Catholic Mobilizing Network. The webinar featured Sr. Helen Prejean, Ohio death row exoneree Kwame...
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Activity

Activity to Develop a Consistent Ethic of Life

Use this reflection tool to discern how you might want to take greater action and responsibility for your actions to assist and accompany others within your communities.
Activity

Peacemaking Activity for Elementary School Students

Begin the new year by thinking about how we can be peacemakers in our families, classrooms, and communities. This activity is geared toward students in grades 4-8.
Reflection

Quality of Life: A Consistent Ethic of Life

This is a reflection on understanding the consistent ethic of life and how we are called to see the dignity of life in everyone we encounter.