Justice Resource Library
Africa
How much do you know about Africa? Click here to take a short quiz.
Education For Justice offers Darfur book discussion - click here.
Book Reviews
Click here to read a book review by Joe Barrish SM on "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man".
Child Exploitation
World Council of the Marianist Family adopts child exploitation/child labor as a global social justice priority for Marianists. Click here for details.
"A Contemporary Analysis of Child Labor " by MSJC intern Johanna Cook
Ecology & Environment
Real Money offers article called "Carbon Offsets Demystified." To read it click here.
The Mount St. John Green Team offers resources on compact fluorescent light bulbs. To learn more click here.
Fair Trade
Fair trade websites - click here
Hunger
Education for Justice offers a good resource on the Food Bill relating it to issues of hunger. To learn more click here.
Immigration
Click here to read the Steering Committee's statement on Immigration Reform
Click here to read “Looking at Root Causes – Why Do Immigrants Come to the US?”
Op-ed article by Brian Halderman SM on immigration reform - Click here
Latin America
"In Guatemala, Officers' Killings Echo Dirty War" by JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Poverty
Catholic Charities offers a policy paper entitled "Poverty in America: A Threat to the Common Good." To read it click here
Education for Justice offers a Debt and Poverty Bible Study. To get resource click here
Take the Poverty Quiz. Click here.
Reports
Joint MSJC/Faith
and Culture Task Force Conference (July 2004)
– description, participants, etc.
2003-04
MSJC Annual Report
2005-2006
MSJC Annual Report
Our Children's Place is an alternative correctional facility for women prisoners with young children. 2 lay Marianists have taken significant leadership in this innovative project. To learn more click here.
Marianist International Volunteers latest newsletter available. Click here
Social Justice (general)
Millennium Development Goals – What are they? Why should I care?
Click here
to find out.
Excerpt from
The Holy Longing
by Fr. Ronald Rolheiser – an excellent summary of Christian social
justice principles
The Center
for Economic and Social Justice – A Vision and Means for Social Change
by Paul Merland SM
Education for
Justice background paper focusing on “What
is the common good?”
Be inspired by Mother Teresa. Click here to view a presentation of pictures and quotes from here life.
Education For Justice offers "Mary Model of Justice" Retreat outline - click here.
"Achieveing World Peace" - article by Ed O'Rourke. To read this click here.
Sustainability/Simple Living
50 Ways to Thrive (and Survive) in the Next 10 years –
click here
10 Ways to
Simplify Christmas from Education for
Justice
Go Green for Your Holiday Gifts
from Real Money
"17 Steps to Staying Spiritually
Alive for the Long Haul”
Green Gifts for the Holidays. To read the article by Real Money click here.
Torture
Guantanamo - Make a Difference! - Act Now! Read MSJC member
Richard Sroczynski's letter urging us into action.
Click here
Voting
"Voting for
the Common Good" by Catholics in
Alliance for the Common Good
"Voting
God's Politics" by Sojourners
Links
– to other Marianist and social justice-oriented groups and organizations