2025 Justice jubilee year

This ADVENT we celebrate another arrival, the beginning of our JUSTICE Jubilee year with our call to act with justice which begins at Baptism. It is where we are initiated into the community of the Church, the Body of Christ, profess a vow to work denouncing evil in all its forms, and follow Jesus

sharing in his mission. Click DOWNLOAD to read more.

“In the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body – Jews or Greeks, slave or free – and we were all made to drink of the one Spirit.” (1 Corinthians 12:13)​

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In these verses Paul is making a critical point about the meaning of Baptism. By affirming the equality of all believers, Paul is saying that one of the primary effects of baptism is the call to justice. Click DOWNLOAD to read more.

In a time when the rhetoric towards immigrants sends a message of hate and creates fear within the immigrant commu-

nity, we as Catholics must remember our Church teachings and our call to stand in solidarity. Click DOWNLOAD to read more.

Immigration is one of the most pressing political and moral issues of our time. And it is one of the most confusing and divisive issues as well. That means it’s all the more important to be aware of what the Catholic Church teaches regarding immigration. Click DOWNLOAD to read more.

What can we do? What can you specifically do? It is overwhelming to think about addressing this at a macro level. So, let’s think about what is possible for each of us individually. Even small acts can be powerful in changing the narrative and cultural landscape of our communities. Click DOWNLOAD to read more.

Most of us are intuitively aware that the playing field isn’t level for Black St. Louisans. From the day of their birth they face institutional, structural barriers that make it much more difficult for them to succeed and thrive than white St. Louisans. In this essay we will move beyond intuition and take a look at the numbers that tell the story of racial inequity in St. Louis. 

The racial difference in the St Louis population is 46% White and 44% Black. But when we look at housing statistics, the percentages are more remarkably different. 

• White residents are nearly twice as likely to be homeowners than Black residents. 

• 77% of white households have affordable housing compared to 56% of Black households. 

• Black households are more than twice as likely as white households to be severely rent-burdened. CLICK DOWNLOAD TO READ MORE.

Food insecurity is an official term from the USDA. It’s when people don’t have enough to eat and don’t know where their next meal will come from. It’s a big problem in the United States, 

where 47 million people, including 14 million children, experience food insecurity annually.

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You can't remove food insecurity from conversations about social justice. CLICK DOWNLOAD TO READ MORE.

The equality of women and men is a fundamental principle of our American legal system and our Christian faith. In the third chapter of his letter to the Galatians, Paul affirms the radical equality of Christianity: “For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.” CLICK DOWNLOAD TO READ MORE.