Living Justice and Proclaiming Peace with Adolescents

Catholic Social Teaching

The links below are provided to help educate Catholic youth and adults about Catholic Social teaching. For further study, a good resource to consider purchasing is the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church.

  • A Culture of Life and the Death Penalty ( 253 KB)
    In A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death, the bishops call for our nation to abandon the use of the death penalty as we move one step closer to building a culture of life.

  • A Place at the Table
    In this pastoral reflection, the bishops issue an urgent call to all Catholics to speak out on behalf of those suffering the most.
  • The Catechism of the Catholic Church
  • Catechism Search
    The Knights of Columbus website for the Catechism offers a helpful search feature that enables users to put in a word such as "justice" or phrase such as "kingdom of God" and have all of the articles with the particular term or phrase listed for them. Users can also search the "Catechism" by paragraph number or browse the table of contents to find what they want.
  • Principles, Prophecy, and a Pastoral Response
    An Overview of Modern Catholic Social Teaching
  • Two Feet of Catholic Social Action
    Both direct social services— giving assistance to those in need (charity)—and efforts made to create social change—working to change systems that create inequity (justice)—are part of the vision of Catholic social justice.

Social Justice Resources for Youth Ministry

Listed on this page are multiple resources that integrate faith and action on behalf of our global family, challenging Catholic youth to live counter-culturally and to consider how their engagement of the world, their perspectives and lifestyles, can make a difference. Most of these resources are FREE and can be ordered by phone or online.