CST Issues
Domestic Poverty
- Catholic Charities USA: Founded in the spirit of Catholic values, teaching, and traditions, Catholic Charities vigorously advocates for the reduction of poverty and works to build a sense of solidarity among those in charitable ministries.
- Catholic Campaign for Human Development: The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is the domestic anti-poverty, social justice program of the U.S. Catholic bishops.
Global Poverty
- Catholic Relief Services: Catholic Relief Services is the official international humanitarian agency of the U.S. Catholic community and works to alleviate suffering and provide assistance to people in need in over 100 countries.
- Caritas Internationalis: Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories.
- Center of Concern: An international center dedicated to the study of issues relating to development, justice, and peace from a Christian perspective, the Center of Concern in Washington, D.C., works to promote economic and social justice in a global context.
- USCCB on Global Poverty: This collaborative webpage by the USCCB and CRS advocates for U.S. policies that foster economic and social development for people living in poverty throughout the world.
Immigration
- Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope: A pastoral letter concerning migration from the Bishops of Mexico and the United States, Strangers No Longeris the first letter jointly written by the two bishops’ conferences.
Advocacy
- Bread for the World: A collective Christian voice working to end hunger at home and abroad by advocating for changes in the policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist.
- Pax Christi USA: This organization is committed to peace education that strives to create a world that reflects the Peace of Christ by exploring, articulating, and witnessing to the call of Christian nonviolence.
- NETWORK: A Catholic leader in the global movement for justice and peace, educates, organizes and lobbies for economic and social transformation.
Economic Justice for All
- Economic Justice for All
- A Decade After Economic Justice for All
- National Catholic Rural Life Conference
- “Humanizing the Global Economy” by Jeffrey Sachs
Faithful Citizenship
- Faithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility: Built around the United States bishops’ November 2007 reflection Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, this site offers a variety of resources related to Catholic teaching and political life. Included are resources for prayer, reflection, social action and education.
Labor
- Transform Work: Transform Work (Brook House, Ouse Walk, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, England PE29 3QW) is a clearinghouse of information and materials relating to the faith and work movement in England and elsewhere.
- Dialogue on the Spirituality of Work: Greg Pierce, former president of the National Center for the Laity, hosts a cyberspace "Dialogue on the Spirituality of Work." Email for more information.
- Catholic Labor Network
- National Center for the Laity: Fr. Sinclair Ourbre (Catholic Labor Network) hosts the National Center for the Laity website.
Human Rights for Workers
- Bob Senser, longtime friend of the National Center for the Laity, edits a unique and very informative cyber-newsletter and blog.
- Laborem Exercens – On Human Work, Encyclical of Pope John Paul II (Issued Sept. 14, 1981). Full Text.
- Rerum Novarum – On the Condition of the Working Classes, Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII (Issued May 15, 1981). Full Text.
- Theology Library on Labor
- Interfaith Worker Justice
- Department of Labor
- Interstate Labor Standards Association