The Office of Life, Justice & Peace provides resources and information to parishioners on Catholic social teaching, its themes, and specific issues.

How about video night?  Watch one of our DVD's. The videos available to check out are listed below. To borrow a DVD, please e-mail the Office. 

 

General Themes of Catholic Social Teaching

• In the Footsteps of Jesus: Catholic Social Teaching at Work Today (USCCB) 

VHS:

• Marketplace Prophets: Voices for Justice in the 20th Century (This documentary reviews 100 years of Catholic social teaching [1891-1991], frequently called the Church's "best kept secret."). USCCB, 1991

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Life and Dignity of the Human Person

• October Baby (2012)
• Created and Redeemed (Theology of the Body): 4 DVD Set and Study Guide

Death Penalty

• A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death (Using Catholic social teaching as a basis, and weaving in stories of those who have been touched by violence, this video encourages Catholics to fully examine the campaign to abolish the death penalty in the United States.

        15 minutes.  (USCCB, 2006)

Human Trafficking

• Dreams Die Hard: Survivors of Slavery in America Tell Their Stories
• Lives for Sale: A Documentary on Immigration & Human Trafficking

Immigration

• Destination America: The People and Cultures That Created A Nation
• Dying to Live: A Migrant's Journey
• Gospel Without Borders (2011)
• The Holy Spirit Speaking to Us Today: Gifts of Diversity and Unity Jesús Huerta, National Coordinator of Diversity, Catholic Relief Services (Participants learned and discussed practical approaches for creating a vibrant intercultural parish by fostering inclusion and integration, with a spirituality of hospitality and mission.)
• The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexico Border (Catholic Relief Services, 2006)
• Lives for Sale: A Documentary on Immigration & Human Trafficking
• One Border One Body: Immigration & the Eucharist (2008)
• Strangers No Longer (A look into the many global implications that cause people to migrate to the USA and an understanding of the problems that exist with the current US immigration system). English with Spanish subtitles. (USCCB, Migration and Refuge Services)
• Strangers No Longer: Reflections on Immigration, by Bishop Kicanis (2010 Tobin Lecture)

Mental Illness

• Shadow Voices: Finding Hope in Mental Illness

Nonviolence

• A Force More Powerful -- 2000

Racism

• Come Walk In My Shoes, 2007

VHS:

• The Shadow of Hate: A History of Intolerance in America -- 1995. 40 minutes

Option for the Poor and Vulnerable

Economic Justice

• The Debt of Dictators: How Multinational Banks Supported Dictators

Fair Trade

• Why Fair Trade? Heather Moline, Northwest Catholic Relief Services Consultant, Kelly Hickman, Archdiocese of Seattle (Young adults and ministry leaders discovered ways to introduce their parishes to the Church’s social teaching on solidarity through Fair Trade.)

Homelessness

• My Own Four Walls: Giving Voice and Visibility to Homeless Kids, 2007

Poverty

• Holding Ground: The Rebirth of Dudley Street
• Waging a Living: Working Overtime in Pursuit of the American Dream (2005)
• Waiting on the World to Change (ABC News Special, 2010)
• When Did I See You Hungry? (2002)

VHS:

• Among the People: Facing Poverty in America (A moving portrayal how Catholic Campaign for Human Development is assisting projects in impoverished communities throughout the United States), 2002

Restorative Justice

• Restorative Justice: A Catholic Perspective, 2004

Participation

• Faith in Politics: Our Catholic Responsibility by John Carr, USCCB (2011 Tobin Lecture)
• Faithful Citizenship: A Matter of Conscience (this DVD offers a short program on Catholic voting issues - in English, in Spanish, and for teens and young adults [also in English]). (USCCB)

Solidarity

• Dr. Congo's Life or Death Transition (This DVD seeks to raise awareness of the plight of the Congolese people). (Catholic Relief Services)
• The Line in the Sand: Stories from the US/Mexico Border (Catholic Relief Services, 2006)
• Opening a Horizon of Hope: Transformed by Christ to Love All (2014 Tobin Lecture)
  Joan Rosenhauer, Executive Vice-President, U.S. Operations, Catholic Relief Services

VHS:

• The Mouse's Tale (This animated movie from Catholic Relief Services explores international food production and hunger issues and is targeted to youth and young adults, with a study guide for further reflection). (USCCB and CRS, 1993)

 

• Global Solidarity: A Framework for Parishes (USCCB, Migration and Refuge Services and Catholic Relief Services, 1998)

Care for God's Creation 

• Keeping the Earth: Religious and Scientific Perspectives on the Environment (1996)
• Renewal: Stories from America's Religious-Environment Movement (2007)
• Water for Life (This DVD focuses on water scarcity issues around the globe, and highlights the work being done by CRS and National Council of Catholic Women to alleviate the suffering caused by water scarcity. 18 minutes long. Includes a discussion guide). (CRS and National Council of Catholic Women, 2006)

on Teaching Catholic Social Teaching

• In the Footsteps of Jesus. (Video and leader's manual focus on age-appropriate activities which explain the 7 themes of Catholic Social Teaching to middle-school and high-school students, as well as adults). (USCCB, 2004)

Other

• Franz Jagerstatter: A Man of Conscience (2008)
• The Global Banquet: Politics of Food
• The Man Who Planted Trees

 

• Mercy in the City: Doing God's Work at Ungodly Hours (2015 Tobin Lecture)
  We are called to lives that incorporate prayer and service, and sometimes that means early mornings, late nights, or long hours. Kerry Weber explains how as a young woman she attempted to follow the Corporal Works of Mercy during Lent.
   
• Portrait of a Radical: The Jesus Movement (with Huston Smith, Richard Rohr, Allen Dwight Callahan) (2000)

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