Quality of Life: A Consistent Ethic of Life
This is a reflection on understanding the consistent ethic of life and how we are called to see the dignity of life in everyone we encounter.
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Archive for category: Poverty
World Food Day Quiz
World Food Day is October 16. Use this Hunger/Food Quiz to reflect with your class or group.
World Hunger Crisis
Communities around the world are facing extreme hunger alongside issues of conflict, climate change, COVID-19, and the cost of rising food. Catholic Relief Services assembled a resource alongside their partners to help bring awareness to this worldwide crisis. This activity is based on resource that appeared in Catholic Relief Services in June 2022.
Working to Overcome Food Insecurity
This resource shares insights into working at a local food bank and things to consider about one’s community and where help is needed.
Litany: So All May Eat
Catholic Social Teaching is clear that the right to food is basic for not only the survival but also the flourishing of every one of God’s children in the global human family. In this litany, we pray that a just and sustainable food system be developed so all members of the human family are able to eat nutritious food every day and thus flourish as children of God.
CST and Housing in a Time of COVID and Climate Change
Catholic Social Teaching has long taught that the right to decent housing is a fundamental human right that is necessary to promote the life and dignity of the human person. With new health and climate change disasters emerging rapidly, decent and safe housing is a central, critical issue, especially for people living on the margins and in poverty.
The Option for the Poor Quiz
This quiz asks questions and provides statistics about how COVID-19 affected poverty rates in the United States. Use this quiz to gauge student knowledge on poverty before beginning a new unit or class on the topic.
Crossing the Big Divide: Bridging the Income and Wealth Gaps in Our Nation
In this presentation, Sr. Simone Campbell explains race-based income and wealth disparities, the historical causes of these inequalities, and the importance of addressing structural racism in solutions to cross the big wealth divide. Use the handout with questions that are divided into two parts so that the video can be watched in two shorter periods.
This presentation was originally shared at the Ignatian Solidarity Network’s 2020Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice and was edited for use by Education for Justice.
Crossing the Big Divide: Bridging the Income and Wealth Gaps in Our Nation
Dying to Live
Dying to Live is a book that aims to dive deeper into the world of those forced to flee home to survive, refugees, through their personal stories. This discussion guide provides questions that allow the reader to explore themes from the book as well as justice issues related to migration.
Living CST: Robert F. Kennedy
This prayer service uses quotes from Robert F. Kennedy, a transformed leader who spent his career as a politician putting the marginalized and impoverished at the center of his policy platform.
CST and Those Without Choices
This resource identifies three circumstances where those who are suffering face difficult choices. Reflection questions, faith in action, and a prayer are included.
October 2018: Voices for Those in Poverty
This month’s calendar offers daily reflections and actions to celebrate EFJ’s theme for the month of October 2018: Rejoice and Be Glad: Voices for Those in Poverty.
