Justice & Action Resources Online
The Christian Practice of Transforming the World
| Transforming the World - Essay with Activities.pdf |
| Transforming the World - Session.pdf |
The Pastoral Circle - A Process of Analysis-Reflection-Action
Pastoral Circle Video Presentation - Education for Justice, Center of Concern
https://educationforjustice.org/interact/PastoralCircle/player.html
https://educationforjustice.org/interact/PastoralCircle/player.html
| pastoral_circle_process.pdf |
| planning_a_pastoral_circle_session.pdf |
| mobilizing_people_for_justice.pdf |
The Two Feet of Social Action: Social Justice & Service
www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/two-feet-of-love-in-action.cfm
| two-feet-of-love-in-action-facilitator-s-guide.pdf |
| two-feet-of-love-in-action-session-for-teens.pdf |
Catholic Social Teaching & Justice Education
Catholic Social Teaching: Theology and Principles - USCCB
www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching
Resources & Tools - USCCB
www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development/resources-and-tools.cfm
Catholic Relief Services Educational Resources
http://education.crs.org
www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching
Resources & Tools - USCCB
www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development/resources-and-tools.cfm
Catholic Relief Services Educational Resources
http://education.crs.org
- Going Global with Youth is a gateway to activities, lesson plans, simulations, prayer services, and other resources that explore global issues through the lens of Catholic social teaching.
Issues & Advocacy & Action
Domestic Issues: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/about/domestic-social-development/issues
International Issues: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development
Issue Backgrounders - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/about/domestic-social-development/resources
Center of Concern
www.coc.org
Network - A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
www.networklobby.org
Sojourners
http://sojo.net
www.usccb.org/about/domestic-social-development/issues
- The USCCB works to apply Catholic social teaching to domestic issues in the public policy arena by advocating on behalf of the poor and vulnerable on a wide range of legislative matters. We promote family and child friendly policies, access to healthcare, and reform of welfare policies and address issues of poverty including housing and homelessness, hunger, labor, and wage concerns. We also work for the preservation of the environment with a particular emphasis on rural life issues and monitor legislation dealing with individual dignity as governed by civil rights laws.
International Issues: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development
- The Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development (JPHD) creates and distributes resources to increase awareness of Catholic social teaching and of opportunities to concretely live our Baptismal call to love God and neighbor. These efforts include federal advocacy on domestic issues such as food security, housing and employment and international issues such as peace, foreign assistance and religious freedom.
Issue Backgrounders - United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/about/domestic-social-development/resources
Center of Concern
www.coc.org
- The Center of Concern is a faith-based organization bringing a prophetic voice for social and economic justice to a global context. The Center is both a provider of information and analysis as well as a catalyst for launching projects to address issues or opportunities that advance an authentic human development agenda. Through analysis, education, advocacy and capacity building, the Center challenges structural injustice and promotes innovative economic alternatives.
Network - A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby
www.networklobby.org
- A Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace, NETWORK educates, lobbies, and organizes for economic and social transformation. NETWORK has been influencing Congress in favor of peace and justice for more than 40 years. Through lobbying and legislative advocacy, NETWORK strives to close the gap between rich and poor and to dismantle policies rooted in racism, greed and violence.
Sojourners
http://sojo.net
- Sojourners is a national Christian organization committed to faith in action for social justice which seeks to inspire hope and build a movement to transform individuals, communities, the church, and the world. Sojourners focuces on racial and social justice, life and peace, and environmental stewardship. Working through Sojourners magazine, Sojourners’ website, ducational resources, books, advocacy, and trainings, Sojourners is an internationally influential voice at the intersection of faith, politics, and culture.
Examples of Online Resources for
Justice Education, Action, & Advocacy
Archdiocese of Hartford: The Office for Catholic Social Justice Ministry
www.catholicsocialjustice.org
www.catholicsocialjustice.org
Issue: Children
Children's Defense Fund
www.childrensdefense.org
www.childrensdefense.org
- The Children's Defense Fund Leave No Child Behind® mission is to ensure every child a Healthy Start, a Head Start, a Fair Start, a Safe Start and a Moral Start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
Issue: Environment
Environment: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/environment
Environmental Justice Program (EJP)
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/environment/environmental-justice-program
Catholic Climate Covenant
http://catholicclimatecovenant.org
Franciscan Action Network
https://franciscanaction.org
Interfaith Power & Light
www.interfaithpowerandlight.org
National Rural Life Conference
www.ncrlc.com
The Nature Conservancy - Protecting Nature, Preserving Life
www.nature.org
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/environment
Environmental Justice Program (EJP)
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/environment/environmental-justice-program
- The Environmental Justice Program (EJP) educates and motivates Catholics to a deeper reverence and respect for God's creation, and encourages Catholics to address environmental problems, especially as they affect poor and vulnerable people. EJP serves as a resource for Catholic dioceses and state Catholic conferences, and through them Catholic parishes.
Catholic Climate Covenant
http://catholicclimatecovenant.org
- Join Catholics taking action in our families, parishes, schools and communities to reduce our carbon footprint, care for “the least of these” (Mt 25) and raise our voice on behalf of Creation and the poor.
Franciscan Action Network
https://franciscanaction.org
- Inspired by the Gospel of Jesus, and the example of Saints Francis and Clare, the Franciscan Action Network (FAN) is a collective Franciscan voice seeking to transform United States public policy related to peace making, care for creation, poverty, and human rights. We are a grassroots organization amplifying the justice efforts of Franciscans and Franciscan-hearted people around the country, responding to St. Francis of Assisi's call for compassion for the poor and for creation over 800 years ago.
Interfaith Power & Light
www.interfaithpowerandlight.org
- The mission of Interfaith Power & Light is to be faithful stewards of Creation by responding to global warming through the promotion of energy conservation, energy efficiency, and renewable energy. This campaign intends to protect the earth’s ecosystems, safeguard the health of all Creation, and ensure sufficient, sustainable energy for all.
National Rural Life Conference
www.ncrlc.com
- Our mission is to apply the teachings of Jesus Christ for the social, economic, and spiritual development of rural America with responsibility for the care of God's creation. By providing spiritual, educational and advocacy assistance, NCRLC helps rural people shape their futures and lead lives of dignity.
The Nature Conservancy - Protecting Nature, Preserving Life
www.nature.org
- The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working around the world to protect ecologically important lands and waters for nature and people.
Issue: Human Trafficking & Slavery
Human trafficking is a horrific crime against the fundamental rights and dignity of the human person. The United Nations Protocol on Human Trafficking defines it as "the "recruitment, transportation, harboring or receipt of persons by means of force, fraud or coercion."
Human Trafficking: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/human-trafficking
Catholic Relief Services: Slavery & Human Trafficking
http://crs.org/slavery-human-trafficking/?gclid=COjb0eKP0rcCFZSe4Aod_E4A_w
Human Trafficking.org: A Web Resource for Combatting Human Trafficking
www.humantrafficking.org
International Justice Mission
www.ijm.org
Not For Sale
www.notforsalecampaign.org
Stop the Traffik
www.stopthetraffik.org
Human Trafficking: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/human-trafficking
Catholic Relief Services: Slavery & Human Trafficking
http://crs.org/slavery-human-trafficking/?gclid=COjb0eKP0rcCFZSe4Aod_E4A_w
Human Trafficking.org: A Web Resource for Combatting Human Trafficking
www.humantrafficking.org
International Justice Mission
www.ijm.org
- International Justice Mission is a human rights agency that brings rescue to victims of slavery, sexual exploitation and other forms of violent oppression. IJM lawyers, investigators and aftercare professionals work with local officials to secure immediate victim rescue and aftercare, to prosecute perpetrators and to ensure that public justice systems - police, courts and laws - effectively protect the poor.
Not For Sale
www.notforsalecampaign.org
- Not For Sale fights modern-day slavery around the world using business creation, supply chain evaluation and aftercare aid around the globe. By creating enterprise for vulnerable communities, offering social services to survivors and those at-risk to human trafficking, and evaluating the use of forced labor in mainstream supply chains, Not For Sale works to make sure no one is for sale.
Stop the Traffik
www.stopthetraffik.org
- Stop the Traffik is a global movement of individuals, communities and organisations fighting to prevent human trafficking around the world. Every instance of trafficking involves a person being trafficked from a community into a community. Therefore the community must work together to prevent it. We work to inspire, inform, equip and mobilise communities to: know what trafficking is and how to identify it, know how to protect themselves and others, and know how to respond.
Issue: Immigration
Justice for Immigrants
www.justiceforimmigrants.org
Parish Education & Organizing Manual
www.justiceforimmigrants.org/documents/JFI-Parish-Education-Organizing-Manual.pdf
Immigration: United States Catholic Conference
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration
www.justiceforimmigrants.org
Parish Education & Organizing Manual
www.justiceforimmigrants.org/documents/JFI-Parish-Education-Organizing-Manual.pdf
- The JFI campaign seeks educate the public, especially the Catholic community and Catholic public officials, about Church teaching on migration and immigrants; to create political will for positive immigration reform; to enact legislative and administrative reforms based on the principles articulated by the bishops; and organize Catholic networks to assist qualified immigrants obtain the benefits of the reforms.
Immigration: United States Catholic Conference
www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration
Issue: Poverty, Hunger, Housing
Poverty USA: Catholic Campaign for Human Development
www.povertyusa.org
www.povertyusa.org
- More than 46 million Americans live in Poverty USA. Americans families were having a difficult time making ends meet before the recession. With continuing unemployment and increasing costs of living, more and more families have to choose between necessities like health care, child care, and even food. Discover resources to Learn, Act, Connect, and Pray.
Catholics Confront Global Poverty: Catholic Relief Services
www.confrontglobalpoverty.org
Catholic Charities USA
www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
Bread for the World
www.bread.org
Habitat for Humanity
www.habitat.org
Heifer International
www.heifer.org
The Micah Challenge
www.micahchallengeusa.org
ONE - Join the Fight Against Extreme Poverty
www.one.org/us
www.confrontglobalpoverty.org
- Catholics Confront Global Poverty is an initiative between USCCB and CRS that calls on Catholics to confront global poverty by defending the life and dignity of people living in poverty throughout the world, and to urge our nation to act in response to the many faces of poverty through advocacy and action. Learn about the issues, the Church's teachings, and how to get involved.
Catholic Charities USA
www.catholiccharitiesusa.org
Bread for the World
www.bread.org
- Bread for the World is a collective Christian voice urging our nation's leaders to end hunger at home and abroad. Learn about the issues, find resources, and become an advocate for just policies.
Habitat for Humanity
www.habitat.org
- Habitat for Humanity believes that every man, woman and child should have a decent, safe and affordable place to live. We build and repair houses all over the world using volunteer labor and donations. Our partner families purchase these houses through no-profit, no-interest mortgage loans or innovative financing methods.
Heifer International
www.heifer.org
- Heifer Internationall works with communities to end hunger and poverty and care for the earth. By giving families a hand-up, not just a hand-out, they empower them to turn lives of hunger and poverty into self-reliance and hope.
The Micah Challenge
www.micahchallengeusa.org
- Micah Challenge is a global Christian campaign to end extreme poverty. Inspired by scripture, guided by the Holy Spirit, and covered in prayer they advocate for a more just world, engaging in transformational advocacy.
ONE - Join the Fight Against Extreme Poverty
www.one.org/us
- ONE is a hard-headed movement of people around the world fighting the absurdity of extreme poverty. Their three million members around the world take action. They click petitions, make phone calls, write letters, attend rallies – to demand solutions from their governments. Learn about the issues, progress toward alleviating extreme poverty, and what you can do.
