Catholic Social Tradition Principles

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Deus Caritas Est

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Caritas in Veritate

Reflection

Discussion Guide for Dilexi te

Dilexi te (Apostolic Exhortation of Pope Leo XIV, 2025) reflects a vision of a Church renewed through love, simplicity, and justice. Issued on October 4, 2025, the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi,...
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Film Discussion Guide

Discussion Guide on Deportations and Assaults on Human Dignity

This discussion guide explores the U.S. Church’s response to widespread deportations and the defense of human dignity. Drawing from a Georgetown Initiative on Catholic Social Thought event...
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Dilexi te

Video

Webinar- A Better Kind of Politics? Community Organizing and Catholic Social Teaching

Explore how Fratelli Tutti and the Catholic tradition invite us to imagine a “better kind of politics” rooted in community, solidarity, and the common good. Nicholas Hayes-Mota, Ph.D, shares a...
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Activity

Pressing On: Reflections for IFTJ 2025

This resource invites students and educators to prepare for the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice through prayer, Gospel reflection, and personal discernment. Centered on Luke 21:5-19 and the...
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Prayer

Prayer To Help Us Love

"Prayer to Help Us Love" invites people of faith to reflect on the beauty of God’s creation and our shared responsibility to protect it. Rooted in Catholic Social Teaching and inspired by Laudato...
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Film Discussion Guide

"Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy" Discussion Guide

This discussion guide accompanies the documentary Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, where industry insiders expose the manipulative tactics driving overconsumption. With Catholic social teaching...
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Activity

Discernment and Purchasing Guide

Reflect on how faith and justice intersect with everyday purchasing decisions. Through an Ignatian lens, explore ethical consumption, fast fashion, and the spirituality of discernment. Featuring a...
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Gun Violence in Our Communities: Catholic Social Teaching, Prayer, and Action

Video

Rerum Novarum Webinar - Theology, Philosophy, and History

Learn more about Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII’s 1891 encyclical that affirmed the dignity of workers, defended their rights to just wages, safe conditions, and labor unions, and called for...
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