Social Justice Resource & Advocacy Links

Resources

Caritas in Veritate - individual study guides and resources

Social Justice-A Basic Introduction

Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching

Communities of Salt and Light: Reflections on the Social Mission of the Parish (USCCB)

Access to Catholic Social Justice Teachings (from the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker Community of Oklahoma City)

Diocese of Scranton pages on service

JustFaith Ministries - programming opportunities for individual study on Catholic social teaching

Faithful Citizenship

Issues

Life Issues

ProLife - USCCB

Catholic Campaign for Human Development -USCCB

USCCB Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development

Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty

National Catholic Partnership on Disability

Poverty

Catholics Confront Global Poverty - US. Catholic bishops and the Catholic Relief Services

Bread for the World - "Seeking Justice, Ending Hunger"

Catholic Charities USA

Peace

Pax Christi - The National Catholic Peace Movement

Invisible Children - African children being abducted from their homes and forced to fight

SOA Watch - School of the Americas now WHINSEC - combat training school for Latin American soldiers

Immigration

Justice for Immigrants - USCCB

Environment

Environment - USCCB

Laudato Si (Pope Francis' encyclical on caring for the environment_

Catholic Climate Covenant

General Social Issues

Network - A Catholic Social Justice Lobby

Access to Catholic Social Justice Teachings (from the Oscar Romero Catholic Worker Community of Oklahoma City)

Organizations of Interest

Catholic Relief Services

Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos™ International - information about Fr. Rick Frechette CP and his work in Haiti

Bead for Life - Beads and jewelry made by the women of Uganda

CRS Fair Trade - part of Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Volunteer Network - search for volunteer opportunities