Social Justice Topics Archives

Reflection

Reflection: CST and SDGs: Climate Action

Both the Sustainable Development Goals and Catholic social teaching stress the importance of caring for the natural environment and ending human-caused climate change. In addition to the reflection,...

Reflection

Art Activism: Connecting Art and Social Justice

This comprehensive resource highlights historic movements that used art to create social change, identifies current social justice art movements, provides reflection questions and a prayer, and...

Litany

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Call to Carry the Gospel of Freedom

This three-page litany includes quotes from Martin Luther King, Jr. and calls on each of us to be nonviolent agents of change in today’s world. Commemorate Black History Month in your classroom,...

Prayer

Earth Day Prayer, 2017

Inspired by the 2017 Earth Day theme, “Environmental and Climate Literacy,” this prayer calls us to an ecological conversion rooted in respect and knowledge of our complex and sacred common...

Prayer

Peace to Our Earth

This prayer for the natural environment is based on the line from Pope Francis’s 2013 Lenten Message, “Peace to our earth.”

Prayer

And They Danced Before the Lord

International Dance Day is celebrated annually on April 29. This prayer recalls dancing in Scripture and celebrates the harmony that dancing brings to both body and soul.

Hidden Figures

Hidden Figures tells the remarkable story of three African American women who played a significant role in the NASA launch of John Glenn, the first person to orbit the earth. This resource includes a...

Reflection

CST and SDGs: Reduce Inequalities

Pope Francis has been very clear on his deep concerns about economic inequality; this resource explores his concerns and links them to the UN goal to lessen such inequalities around the globe by...

Litany

Women Creating the Common Good

This litany remembers the many women who have worked for peace and justice worldwide during the last two centuries and asks that the remembrance of these women inspire us to continue their...