Economic Justice

Stations of the Cross: A Reflection on Debt

Linda Jones' Stations of the Cross help us to reflect on the enormous debt that burdens developing countries and their people across the world.

Poverty, Disasters and Development

The Option for the Poor is central principle of the Church's social teaching and relevant in disasters such as the tsunami in South East Asia. This unit consists of fact sheets on the poverty and...
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Development Aid in Poor Countries

Providing assistance and development aid to poor countries has long been a concern of the Church. This two-page fact sheet defines types of short-term and long-term aid to poor countries and explains...
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The Social Concerns of the Church (Sollicitudo Rei Socialis)

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee

As part of our Food for Thought series, we offer a fact sheet on coffee and how you can, in your coffee choices, promote social justice instead of exploitation and poverty.

United Nations Millenium Development Goals

The fact sheet summarizes the basics of the UN Millenium Development Goals, an world-wide initiative to fight poverty. The resource includes an update on the progress made and connects the goals to...
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Prayer Service for Debt Cancellation

Debt is crippling particularly in developing countries where life and death weigh in the balance.  This prayer service brings the lives of those strangled by the damaging effects of debt and places...
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CST Conscious Consumer: Chocolate

Lesson Plan
The United States is the world's largest chocolate consumer, and this unit explores the global issues behind our chocolate purchases. Topics covered include child labor, slavery, corporate...
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CST Conscious Consumer: Introduction

Lesson Plan
The world is consuming goods and services at an unsustainable pace, with serious consequences for the well-being of people and the planet. There are, however, creative options for meeting people's...
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April 13, 2004 - Church in Americas Urged to Counter Negative in Globalization

Prayer Service of Hope: The Millennium Development Goals

A prayer service of hope connecting world realities with the millennium development goals.

February 17, 2004: Halliburton and Corporate Accountability