Stop Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking comprises the fastest growing criminal industry in the world.

In America, 60,000 men, women, and children are enslaved at this very moment.

Get this toolkit to educate individuals and members of parishes and organizations and then to help them mobilize and put an end to human trafficking.

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Season of Creation

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Vote in 2016 & Engage Elected Officials

Prepare for the elections and read our 2016 Voting Guide:

• The essential truth of the Gospel
  
• The beauty of Pope Francis’s vision
• The social mission of Catholic Church
  

Learn how to personally advocate for change and garner other advocacy resources.

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See our inside page for statements, releases, and more supporting our Muslim brothers and sisters here in America and those fleeing persecution, war and economic injustice.

Tell your Member of Congress to support HR 5207 forbidding a ban on refugees or immigrants because of their faith.

• Video by Fr. James Martin, SJ, on the Church's relationship with the LGBT community (Jun 13, 2016)
• Religion News Service article on Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich decrying the massacre of gays and lesbians targeted in the Orlando shooting (Jun 12, 2016)
• Carbon-fast guide for Lent and Easter 2017 from Good Shepherd Australia New Zealand 


• ​Image (ENG) for May 13th Rosaries and Document (ENG) for May 13th Rosaries

Paid Family & Medical Leave

You’ve been sick. Did you stay home?  Was your job at risk?  Who took care of your sick little kindergardener with fever?  You?  Was your job at risk?

Paid family and medical leave enables workers to earn time off to tend to a sick family member, take care of a new baby or newly adopted child or to take time to recuperate themselves.  We all need a fair shake.

Read more on our Poverty Page. 

Do you have a story to tell supporting paid family and medical leave? We would love to hear from you.  Please visit our Outreach Page to share your story.

"These past seven months have seen migrants, refugees and immigrants take hit after hit after hit. The state of affairs with regard to our immigration policy is abysmal.  Here and abroad, it has unnecessarily put communities at risk and people’s lives in danger, and it has put America’s future in question.

"Somehow we have forgotten that immigrants are people who may have needs but they also have gifts to offer.  When we think of immigrants as commodities we lose sight of their humanity and run the risk of losing our own humanity."
~ Larry Couch