Pope Francis: Jesuit Social Justice

We are all children of God, and God is the God of peace. - Pope Francis

Christian Life Community in the Metro New York area is delighted to host an online Lenten morning of reflection with renowned author Dr. Austen Ivereigh who will speak on “The People of God inside the Tent of Meeting: Pope Francis' Vision…

On Easter Sunday, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Pope Francis has called for the consideration of a Universal Basic Wage in a letter to popular movements and community organizations on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic response.

Consider a New Year’s resolution worth keeping:  Read Pope Francis' 2019 World Day of Peace address and prayerfully strive to put it into practice.

Every day, we witness the effects of the changing climate on poor and vulnerable people. In Pope Francis's encyclical Laudato Si’, we are reminded that it is our responsibility to care for the earth –- our common home. U.S leaders are currently deciding if the our country should stay in the Paris Climate Agreement.

Pope Francis presided over the Good Friday Via crucis on Friday, April 14, 2017, at the Colosseum in Rome. In keeping with tradition, he briefly addressed the faithful gathered to participate in the devotion.

Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters. Pope Francis

Being a Christian entails promoting the dignity of our brothers and sisters, fighting for it, living for it. Pope Francis

In his groundbreaking encyclical entitled Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, Pope Francis called on all of humanity to change how we care for the Earth, our "common home." As the one-year anniversary of the encyclical's release is celebrated, Jesuit institutions are rising to the challenge, taking the message of the first Jesuit pope to heart.

Feet are the lowliest and dirtiest parts of a human. In washing each others' feet, we not only embrace the deepest parts of their human dignity, but we reveal that we fully embrace every part of their being.

WASHINGTON, D.C. —On the occasion of Pope Francis' visit to Mexico, including the U.S.-Mexico border, Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz of Louisville, Kentucky, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), invited Catholics to pray together "as one Church."

It is no coincidence Pope Francis is in Africa while world leaders gather in Paris in the run-up to COP21.

In what is estimated to be the largest Catholic advocacy day of the year, more than 1,200 individuals will go to Capitol Hill on Monday, November 9 to urge members of Congress to address the moral issues raised by Pope Francis during his recent visit to the U.S., including climate change and immigration. The day of advocacy is part of the 18th Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice (IFTJ) on November 7-9 in Washington, D.C., a national social justice gathering of predominately students and young adults affiliated with U.S. Jesuit institutions and the larger Catholic Church.

Pope Francis Address to U.S. Congress: September 24, 2015

Congressman Gosar, I hope you will reconsider your decision to boycott. Join us in the dialogue for a more peaceful and just world.

Pope Francis: "We must not forget the grave social consequences of climate change. It is the poorest who suffer the worst..

Building energy for his recent encyclical entitled Ladauto Si’, Pope Francis announced today, September 1st as a Catholic World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation.

This past Thursday evening (July 9, 2015) in Bolivia, Pope Francis gave a powerful and prophetic address to The World Meeting of Popular Movements, a gathering organized in collaboration with Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, which brought together delegates from popular movements from around the world.

Pope Francis’s encyclical entitled Laudato Si: Care for Our Common Home brings forth climate change as a moral issue that requires our collective response to avoid further suffering, especially for those already marginalized by its effects.

I hope the encyclical inspires you. The world needs you to take action, to be creative, and to be hopeful. Pope Francis has already spoken of “The Joy of the Gospel.”

What do you get when you put President Barack Obama, Catholics and evangelicals together to talk about poverty in America?

A commercial at Super Bowl XLIX will run a company $4.5 million for a thirty-second spot. The staff in the ISN office took a little bit of time to dream about what kind of message for justice we could share with 100+ million viewers around the world.

"Poverty is the center of the gospel." - Pope Francis

Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. - Pope Francis

National Catholic organizations are joining Pope Francis in calling for prayers of peace in the midst of increasing violence in Iraq.

Pope Francis has also made it clear that he wants a church that is bruised and dirty from being out working with people in need on the streets rather than a clean, neat, or perfect church closed up in narrow halls of (righteous?) rightness and sinlessness.

"For me Christmas has always been about this: contemplating the visit of God to his people." -Pope Franics

"The world tells us to seek success, power, and money; God tells us to seek humility, service, and love." - Pope Francis

The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service, and love. - Pope Francis