Social Justice Topics

Nuclear Energy and the Common Good: Survivors and Bishops Speak Out

In the wake of the earthquake in Japan, a growing number of people--including Nagasaki and Hiroshima survivors and a Japanese bishop--are raising concerns about nuclear energy. This three page...
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The Whistleblower

This film guide overviews the recently released drama The Whistleblower. The film tells the story of Nebraska police officer Kathy Bolkovac who uncovered human trafficking while working for a private...
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Alabama Immigration Law Threatens Free Exercise of Religion

Alabama has passed a law that would make it a crime to knowingly assist an illegal immigrant by providing them a ride, a job, a place to live or any other kind of social assistance, including...
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Prayer Service

Prayer Service for Back to School

Start the school year off by fostering your students’ spirituality. This prayer service includes an opening and closing prayer, readings from the gospel of John, Corinthians, and the Book of...
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Prayer Service

Prayer Service for the 10th Anniversary of 9/11

The upcoming anniversary of 9/11 offers us an opportunity to prayerfully reflect on that tragedy and on the challenge of creating a more peaceful world in memory of those lost and wounded by the...
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Jobs: A Moral Crisis

“The job crisis in the U.S. and globally is not only an economic crisis, it is a moral crisis,” argues Maria Riley in this three page reflection. Riley argues that the convergence of multiple...
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People of God on the Move: Catholic Immigration in the U.S.

Since the 1840s, immigration to the U.S. was increasingly from Catholic countries, beginning with the Irish Famine, continuing with displaced persons from Eastern Europe after World War II and with...
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The U.S. Church's Commitment to Workers

This two-page background piece on the Church's Commitment to Workers makes an ideal parish bulletin. It includes a brief summary of the Knights of Labor, Cardinal Gibbons intervention on the...
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Ending Global Poverty: UN MDG Update

This two-page resource provides recent statistics on poverty, hunger, unemployment, and other ongoing challenges as reported in the 2011 UN Millennium Development Goals Update.

U.S. Taxes Are Low By Comparison

This 3-page article, written by the Executive Director of the Jesuit Social Research Institute at Loyola University, New Orleans, looks at the tax burden of Americans in contrast with other nations.

2011 Vatican Report on Climate Change

The Pontifical Academy of Sciences, in its May 2011 Report, states, "...if we want justice and peace, we must protectthe habitat that sustains us." This two-page fact sheet provides highlights of the...
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Prayer Service

Commissioning Prayer Service at the Conclusion of the Academic Year

This two-page prayer service is designed as a commissioning service and a sending forth at the conclusion of the academic semester or school year.  It can be used for students or faculty. It...
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