Catholic Social Tradition Principles

Creating a Country: Part 1

Through the activity of "Creating a Country," participants receive an overview of the main principles of Catholic social teaching, an understanding of the rights set forth in the Universal...
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Prayer for Displaced Women

Walking in Another's Shoes: The Experience of Poverty

This resource is designed to help participants get a sense of how people living in situations of poverty experience indignities, and yet often possess a sense of their own basic human dignity....
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Who is Rich and Who is Poor?

This unit includes activities to explore both domestic and global poverty and CST. Case studies, prayers, CST reflections, discussion questions, action suggestions, quizzes, and more are...
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Pedagogy of Hope

One of the tasks of the progressive educator, through a serious, correct political analysis, is to unveil opportunities for hope, no matter what the obstacles may be. This reflection looks at the...
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January 8, 2004 - Bishops Question the For-Profit Prison Industry

Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, The Social Concerns of the Church

In Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, or The Social Concerns of the Church, Pope John Paul II discusses global development and its ethical/moral dimensions. He builds on Pope Paul VI's The Development of...
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AIDS Orphans in Africa

There are millions of AIDS orphans in Africa. This unit presents two case studies that look closely at several of these children; also included are discussion questions and a prayer.

Migrant Children in the United States

This resource includes two case studies of children of migrant workers, a fact sheet on the United Nations' Convention on the Rights of the Child, and discussion questions.

Ten Myths About World Hunger

The global food system produces enough food every year to feed each person on the earth, and yet, 800 million people do not have enough to eat. Hunger is not a myth, but myths keep us from ending...
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Prayer Service: Table of Many Breads

No matter what culture, what part of the world, bread is the staple of the poor. Throughout the world, in different lands, and in our own country, the struggle for life, for dignity, for bread, still...
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Quiz

International Poverty Quiz

True/False quiz on international poverty.