Hungry for Justice 2015 Game
This role-play serves to educate people about the World Trade Organization, global trading rules and the ways in which trade can negatively affect developing countries.
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Archive for category: Catholic Social Tradition Principles
Workers’ Rights (Text-Only Version)
This unit on workers’ rights contains the following materials: prayers and reflections, fact sheets, and “The Faces Behind the Products.”
What You See (and Hear) is What you Get: An Inventory on Cultural Input, Violence and Nonviolence
This resource invites us to reflect on how movies, music, TV, or ads shape our perspectives on violence and nonviolence.
Themes of CST: Solidarity
This 5-page background resource on solidarity features the following materials:
- fact sheets;
- scripture passages; and
- questions for reflection and discussion.
Children’s Rights
This unit on children’s rights contains the following materials: prayers and reflections, fact sheets, case studies, an overview of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, information on Gospel values and CST in relation to children, a brief summary of the UN Special Session on Children, suggestions for action and further resources.
Environmental Racism
This two-page resource provides background information and facts about the nature and prevalence of environmental racism. Included with this resource you will also find discussion questions and prayer connections.
Environment Unit
This in-depth unit on the environment features the following materials: prayers and reflections, Catholic Social Teaching on the environment, a fact sheet on human rights and the environment, case studies with discussion questions on two corporations that have violated environmental rights, a case study and discussion questions on the Chernobyl disaster, interactive group activities on the topic of consumption, a fact sheet and discussion questions on the Kyoto Protocol, a fact sheet and discussion questions on the World Summit on Sustainable Development, a role play on sustainable development, a retreat outline on the beauty of God’s creation, suggestions for action and futher resources.
Workers’ Rights
This unit on workers’ rights contains the following materials: prayers and reflections, fact sheets, and "The Faces Behind the Products." Because this unit contains several photographs, there is a long download time. For a shorter download time, please see the text-only version of this unit.
Just War Theory and Nonviolence: Two Strands in the Catholic Social Tradition Related to War and Peace
There are two strands in the Catholic social tradition related to war and peace. Both share the presumption against the use of force as a means for settling disputes. Within that presumption, one, the Just War Theory, has evolved two sets of criteria for engaging in war. One set lays out guidelines for determining when it is just to enter a war (Jus ad Bellum). The other articulates guidelines for just behavior in war (Jus in Bello).
Another, equally valid strain of Catholic social tradition emphasizes the nonviolence of Jesus and calls upon all Christ’s disciples to bear witness in their own lives to nonviolent approaches to conflict resolution.
We Seek Justice Doing Justice
Nothing is more important in these times than to be still and to put ourselves in the presence of God. We must reflect on the fact that we are all part of the human family.
"May God grant the faithful of the Church to be in the front line in the search for justice, in the rejection of violence, and in the commitment to be agents of peace."
Pope John Paul II, September 13, 2001
Catholic Social Teaching, the United Nations, and Human Rights Timeline
The Church’s emphasis on human rights arises from its concern for the dignity of every human person. All of the Church’s pronouncements on rights emphasize this dignity. This timeline activity is perfect for showing the connections between on CST, the United Nations, and Human Rights.
