Catholic Social Tradition Principles

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Reflection

An Overview of Church Teaching on Healthcare

This resource provides a synthesis of Catholic social teaching on healthcare and includes a timeline, links for other resources, and a prayer for healthcare reform.  
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Prayer Service

Naomi Klein: There Can Be No Justice Without Addressing Climate Change

This prayer service is based on the words of Naomi Klein, Canadian author, journalist, and filmmaker, known for her climate justice activism and analyses of globalization, neoliberalism, and...
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Prayer

Asian-American Heritage Month

This prayer celebrates and honors the Asian Pacific culture in the United States during the month of May.
Prayer

Prayer for Women Workers

This prayer asks blessings on all women workers and for solidarity among all women workers.
Activity

Thank You Cards for Workers

Give these thank you cards to custodial workers, baristas, restaurant workers, or hotel staff to honor their labor and build solidarity.     Instructions: 1. Print the card on...
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Toolbox

Dignity of Work

This toolbox is a compilation of resources pertaining to the CST theme of the dignity of work and the rights of workers.
Lectionary Reflection

Good Friday [a] April 14, 2017

Good Friday [a] April 14, 2017   In his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls for urgent action to address environmental degradation and the social injustices that accompany...
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Second Sunday of Easter [a] April 23, 2017

Second Sunday of Easter [a] April 23, 2017 In his encyclical Laudato Si’, Pope Francis calls for urgent action to address environmental degradation and the social injustices that accompany...
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Prayer

Prayer for the Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Populorum Progressio

This prayer commemorates the 50th Anniversary of Populorum Progressio in 2017, and uses words and phrases from Pope Paul VI’s seminal encyclical originally published on March 26, 1967.
Reflection

Reflection: CST and SDGs: Climate Action

Both the Sustainable Development Goals and Catholic social teaching stress the importance of caring for the natural environment and ending human-caused climate change. In addition to the reflection,...
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Prayer

Earth Day Prayer, 2017

Inspired by the 2017 Earth Day theme, “Environmental and Climate Literacy,” this prayer calls us to an ecological conversion rooted in respect and knowledge of our complex and sacred common...
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Prayer

Peace to Our Earth

This prayer for the natural environment is based on the line from Pope Francis’s 2013 Lenten Message, “Peace to our earth.”