Social Justice Topics Archives

Lesson Plan

Climate Change: Facts and Faces

This 7-page resource outlines the Church's perspective on climate change, provides the basic facts on climate change (including a flow chart with pictures), and includes an activity for reflection...

Passover Meal resources for groups and individuals through the lens of Catholic Social Thought and social justice

Prayer Service

Prayer Service for Passover

The Scripture readings for Holy Thursday root us deeply in our Jewish past: celebrating the Passover with the Jewish people, receiving from St. Paul that which was handed on to him, namely the...

Two-Pager: Water of Life

This Water of Life two-page resource makes a great fact sheet, insert for bulletins or newsletters. This resource includes: Sacramental connections to water Global facts and statistics related...

Prayer in a Time of Economic Distress

Prayer Service

Prayer Service to Mark the Anniversary of the War in Iraq

As of March, 2009, more than 4,250 American soldiers have died since the start of the Iraq war on March 19, 2003. The numbers of Iraqis who have died is estimated to be over 1.3 million. More than...

Darfur: Catholic Companion and Discussion Guide

This book discussion guide is designed to introduce Catholics to Not on Our Watch: The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond, by Enough Project Co-chair John Prendergast and actor/activist Don...

Prayer to Abolish the Death Penalty

Video

A Witness Speaks: The Stars are Watching (Video 4)

Fr. Romain Rurangirwa survived the Rwandan genocide in 1994. He was a college student at the time. In this fourth video segment, Fr. Romain tells spellbinding story of a memory from his childhood...

Prayer Service

United States Presidential Inauguration: A Commitment to the Common Good

The inauguration provides an opportunity to pray for our new president and the needs of the country. This resource provides an explanation of the prayerful occasion which inaugurations provide, an...