Peace & Justice Issues

Housing

The Catholic bishops believe decent, safe, and affordable housing is a human right. Catholic teaching supports the right to private property, but recognizes that communities and the...

Human Trafficking

Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where...

Hunger

The drama of hunger in the world calls Christians who pray sincerely to exercise responsibility toward their brothers & sisters, both in their personal behavior and in...

Immigration

Persons have the right to migrate to support themselves and their families. The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the...

Labor

Catholic social teaching supports the rights of workers to choose whether to organize, join a union, and bargain collectively, and to exercise these rights without reprisal…workers, owners,...

Minimum Wage

All people have the right to economic initiative, to productive work, to just wages and benefits, to decent working conditions, as well as to organize and join...

Poverty

The superfluous wealth of rich countries should be placed at the service of poor nations.  The rule, which up to now held good for the benefit of...
Racism

Racism

The equality of all people rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it: Every form of social or cultural discrimination in...

Refugees

Justice will never be fully attained unless people see in the poor person, who is asking for help in order to survive, not an annoyance or a...