Resources on Community Needs/Equity Issues
Pope Francis, “Fratelli Tutti,” Encyclical on Fraternity and Social Friendship (3 October 2020): https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20201003_enciclica-fratelli-tutti.html.
USCCB, “Sharing Catholic Social Teaching: Challenges and Directions” (2011): https://www.usccb.org/resources/sharing-catholic-social-teaching-challenges-and-directions.
Georgetown University’s “Initiative on Catholic Social Thought” offering a series of webinars on various aspects of Catholic Social Thought including Catholic voting, the death penalty, racism in the church, etc. https://catholicsocialthought.georgetown.edu/
Pope Francis on the death penalty: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/new-papal-encyclical-tells-catholics-there-is-no-stepping-back-from-opposition-to-death-penalty.
Statements from the Vatican on the death penalty: https://www.usccb.org/resources/statements-vatican-death-penalty and https://www.usccb.org/resources/statements-holy-father-and-vatican
Statements by American bishops on the death penalty: https://www.usccb.org/committees/domestic-justice-and-human-development/death-penalty-capital-punishment#tab--_013-2000.
“Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope,” (January 22, 2003). A Pastoral Letter concerning migration from the Bishops of Mexico and the United States, Strangers No Longer is the first letter jointly written by the two bishops’ conferences: https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/strangers-no-longer-together-on-the-journey-of-hope.
Catholic Social Teaching on Immigration and the Movement of Peoples,” USCCB: https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/catholic-teaching-on-immigration-and-the-movement-of-peoples.
“Catholic Church’s Position on Immigration Reform,” (August 2013): https://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/immigration/churchteachingonimmigrationreform.