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Social Insurance Programs: Promoting the Common Good

This five page backgrounder reviews key social insurance programs that protect human dignity and the common good and foster economic justice. Social Security, Medicare, and Pension plans are explained...more

25th Anniversary of Economic Justice For All

This three page resource reviews the letter's context and major contributions. Questions for discussion and a list of its six moral principles for the economy are included. ...more

Advent Resource Organizer

This handy guide lists advent prayers, reflections, activities and more that can be found on the EfJ web site through active links. ...more

CST and Disarmament

This two page backgrounder provides the context for development of Church teaching on disarmament, deterrence, and preserving peace. ...more

Food Security: Famine in Somalia

This two page backgrounder provides critical information for understanding the famine in Somalia and surrounding areas. It reviews the region's tendency towards drought, how colonization played a role...more

Nuclear Energy and the Common Good: Survivors and Bishops Speak Out

In the wake of the earthquake in Japan, a growing number of people--including Nagasaki and Hiroshima survivors and a Japanese bishop--are raising concerns about nuclear energy. This three page resourc...more

Today's Slavery: Human Trafficking and Church Response

This four page resource can be used as a companion piece to The Whistleblower Film Discussion Guide. It overviews the current state of human trafficking, its causes and scope, Catholic responses, and ...more

People of God on the Move: Catholic Immigration in the U.S.

Since the 1840s, immigration to the U.S. was increasingly from Catholic countries, beginning with the Irish Famine, continuing with displaced persons from Eastern Europe after World War II and with La...more

The U.S. Church's Commitment to Workers , by: Bob Stewart and Education for Justice

This two-page background piece on the Church's Commitment to Workers makes an ideal parish bulletin. It includes a brief summary of the Knights of Labor, Cardinal Gibbons intervention on the organizat...more

Education for Justice: Justice and Peace Calendar August 2011-July 2012

Just in time for the start of the new school year, the Justice and Peace Calendar provides key dates, marking feasts of great saints, anniversary dates of publications and events, national and interna...more
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