Pope Benedict XVI stresses in his World Day of Peace message, "Respect for creation is of immense consequence, and its preservation has now become essential for the peaceful coexistence of humankind."...more
Merton's thoughts on education, as they are explicitly recorded, are provocative, but brief and general. He summarized in a letter that education "means the formation of the whole person"; he designat...more
Charity and Justice?
Is your school or community involved in food drives during the Thanksgiving or Christmas Season?
Then use this resource to analyze ways you can serve people with justice as...more
Communion agriculture is "the process of growing, watering and gathering the seed every year helps me understand the mysterious transformation of the body of the seed as a parallel to the mysterious t...more
Brian Corbin from the Diocese of Youngstown offers an analysis on Pope Benedict's treatment of labor in the newest encyclical, "Caritas in Veritate." This timely two-page resource is a great resource...more
Service learning places students in the stream of life that by its very nature brings about a process of change and, with grace, leads to deeper conversion and apprehension of the gospel message. Do...more
Justice for the Poor in a Land of Plenty
Domestic poverty is an obstacle to social justice and human flourishing. A new book on the subject explores why concern for the poor is an issue of social ju...more
Ending Poverty in Our Time. The Millennium Development Goals consist of eight key targets set by world leaders to address and eliminate poverty by 2015. World leaders just met to assess their progr...more
This three-page resource offers great questions for reflections based on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching. This resource offers a helpful way to focus on the deeper vision and values that ca...more
This two-page resource provides a brief overview of some of the major elements that are central to the theory of transformative learning. Examples of how these can be translated into practical appl...more
