Catholic Social Tradition Principles

Creating a Country: Part 2

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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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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Corporate Accountability: Wal-Mart

This resource looks at the unjust and illegal actions taken by Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Topics covered in this unit include corporate accountability, worker's rights, human rights and socially...
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Prayer Service: Water for All the People of the Earth

This three-page resource is a prayer service looking at the ways water is essential for all of life.  This prayer service uses a variety of symbols. These symbols are used to show how we are...
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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.