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
“The job crisis in the U.S. and globally is not only an economic crisis, it is a moral crisis,” argues Maria Riley in this three page reflection. Riley argues that the convergence of multiple cris...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 progre...more
Made in L.A. is an Emmy award-winning feature documentary (70 min) that follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-yea...more
Pope Benedict’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate (Love in Truth) is an anniversary document marking the 40th anniversary of Populorum Progressio issued by Pope Paul VI in 1967. Benedict notes, “In...more
Test your knowledge on the the key issues of the economic crisis. This interactive quiz is a great springboard into a discussion of root causes and the intersection of forces that need to be addresse...more
On October 17, 2006, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s representative to the UN, emphasized that the “free trade†agenda that the U.S. and other rich countries are promoting is often detrimental to poor countries.
Some opponents of immigration would allege that job loss in the U.S. can be blamed on the arrival of immigrants in the U.S. However, immigrants are actually more like to help the economy grow and crea...more
Deepening globalization is a phenomenon of our age. In this presentation Maria Riley looks at several different dimensions of globalization, its history, its driving forces, how it is playing out acro...more
There are 60 countries in today's world that are poorer than they were thirty years ago. A fifth of the world's population (1.2 billion people) lives on less than $1 per day and almost half the world'...more
