Catholic Social Tradition Principles

Prayer Service for the Eradication of Poverty

This three-page resource is a formatted, ready-to-use prayer service on ending poverty. It includes leader roles, prayers, and a scriptural reflection on the story of the Good Samaritan.  

A Day in the Life of a Global Citizen

This unit features a global citizenship quiz, along with dicussion questions and a prayer.

Prayer Service for Global Solidarity

This prayer service reminds us of our call to be in solidarity with our sisters and brothers around the globe.

Work as Key to the Social Question

This resource features quotations taken from several major Catholic Social Teaching documents that treat the topic of work. Discussion questions are included.
Prayer Service

Prayer Service for Refugees

We enter this moment in solidarity with all who long for home: the 45 million refugees and displaced persons in our world, 80% of them women and children. We hold in our prayer all who flee...
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Refugees

This seven-page unit includes a page of prayers and reflections, a true/false quiz, a fact sheet on refugees and the Catholic Church, a prayer service, suggestions for further action and a list of...
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Refugees

This seven-page unit includes a page of prayers and reflections, a true/false quiz, a fact sheet on refugees and the Catholic Church, a prayer service, suggestions for further action and a list of...
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Refugees

This seven-page unit includes a page of prayers and reflections, a true/false quiz, a fact sheet on refugees and the Catholic Church, a prayer service, suggestions for further action and a list of...
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Unit

Refugees

This seven-page unit includes a page of prayers and reflections, a true/false quiz, a fact sheet on refugees and the Catholic Church, a prayer service, suggestions for further action and a list of...
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Unit

Issues of War and Peace

This five-page unit is intended to facilitate conversations around issues of war and peace. The unit includes a reflection on patriotism, "Love of Enemies, Love of Country;" a fact sheet on the...
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Fact Sheet & Handout

Mater et Magistra, Christianity and Social Progress

This resource looks at Mater et Magistra (Christianity and Social Progress), an encyclical of Pope John XXIII. Included is an overview of the document, historical notes, an outline of the document...
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Fact Sheet & Handout

Women and the Prison System

This three-page resource provides an introduction to the topic of women and the prison system, a case study, discussion questions, and a prayer.