Social Justice Topics Archives

The Sultan and the Saint

This film tells the true story of the friendship between St. Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malek al-Kamil. Through their interaction, we see that interfaith dialogue can work to foster understanding...

Toolbox

Native American & Thanksgiving

This collection of revised resources celebrates the season of the harvest and Native American Heritage Month. The toolbox includes prayers, reflections on Native American history and...

CST and SDGs: Affordable and Clean Energy

As Pope Francis has declared, we must move from fossil fuels to clean energy, ensuring that those in poverty have access to clean and sustainable energy for authentic human development.

Prayer Service

Majora Carter: Addressing Poverty through Environmental Justice and Community Restoration

We offer this prayer service which offers Majora Carter as model for participation in our communities through understanding the systems and structures that shape these communities; we are called to...

Litany

Litany for Those Who Suffer from Mental Distress

We pray that we may always recognize that those with mental health problems are made in the image of God and that we may always display respect as well as compassion toward them.

World Homeless Day

This insert focuses on the importance of home for human flourishing and offers Catholic social thought on homelessness, with specific recommendations from the US Catholic Bishops on programs that...

Step

Step provides what Pope Francis would call a moving encounter with the staff and students at the Baltimore Leadership School for Young Women; their daily struggles, their determination, their hope,...

Prayer

Prayer for Dreamers

We pray for all the young people impacted by DACA, for those who need to open their hearts to them, and we pray finally for ourselves, that we may be a voice for the dispossessed.

CST and SDGs: Life On Land

This reflection focuses on Goal 15 of the Sustainable Development Goals: to conserve and restore the use of ecosystems such as forests, wetlands, drylands, and mountains. Reflection questions, steps...