Social Justice Topics

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 Interfaith Prayer Service

This interfaith prayer services uses quotes from different faith traditions to inspire and unite us as we work and pray for the strengthing of the United Nations.

Prayer for Victims of Natural Disasters

Respect Creation, Eat Ethically

This resource lists suggestions of how you can better respect creation via decisions in your eating, shopping, and food preparation choices.

Prayer for Sudan

As part of our exploration of interfaith solidarity, we offer a special prayer for use on behalf of the victims of the terrible atrocities in Sudan.  

Prayer Service of Remembrance: Honoring the Casualities of the Conflict in Iraq

Thousands of men and women have given their lives for their country.  This prayer service honors their lives and remembers their sacrifice.

Tourism

This resource identifies some of the ways in which mass tourism can negatively impact the lives and lands of indigenous peoples around the world. This vision of tourism is then contrasted with...
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Catholic Social Teaching on the Treatment of Prisoners

This resource contains quotes from Pope John Paul II on the treatment of prisoners. Also included are some reactions of the Vatican to the abuse of prisoners in Iraq.

Creating a Country: Part 4

Through the activity of "Creating a Country," participants receive an overview of the main principles of Catholic social teaching, an understanding of the rights set forth in the Universal...
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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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Lesson Plan

CST Conscious Consumer: Chocolate

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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Creating a Country: Part 3

Through the activity of "Creating a Country," participants receive an overview of the main principles of Catholic social teaching, an understanding of the rights set forth in the Universal...
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