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Justice, Peace & the Integrity of Creation

The Office of Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation is part of an international network of JPIC offices for the Society of the Sacred Heart. We take a collaborative and pro-active approach in response to the pressing needs of our world. This office serves as the official JPIC office of the Society of the Sacred Heart, United States-Canada Province. As such we work in more focused ways with our priority areas of: racism, environment, immigration, human trafficking, poverty, and non-violence/peace-making.

Screenshot from the presentation.

Discovering Our Kinship With Earth and All Her Creatures

Sep 30, 2020 JPIC

Everyone loves family first. But too many of us have forgotten that as children of one Father, we are bonded in a kinship relationship with every created being. The Incarnation reveals definitively that the Heart of God beats at the center of the...

Society of the Sacred Heart US-C Urges Debt Relief

Jul 15, 2020 JPIC

The World Food Program estimates that an additional 130 million people in poor and middle-income countries will face life-threatening food insecurity in 2020 as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Statement on migrant family detentions.

Catholic Leaders Call to Free the Families and End Family Detention

Jul 01, 2020 JPIC

The Society of the Sacred Heart United States - Canada Province has signed a Statement by Catholic Leaders demanding that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) immediately release all children and their associated family members detained...

Excerpt from statement.

Statement on the Supreme Court Ruling on DACA

Jun 18, 2020 JPIC

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients are thriving in the United States. They contribute to our society by working to support their families, by taking advantage of educational opportunities and by serving in the military....

Affirmation of the "Red Record Statement"

Jun 05, 2020 JPIC

The Society of the Sacred Heart, United States – Canada Province Leadership Team stands in support of the following powerful “Red Record Statement” issued by the National Black Sisters’ Conference on “21st Century Lynchings in America.”

Statement on Racism

May 29, 2020 JPIC

The Society of the Sacred Heart in the United States and Canada strongly condemns the gross violation of human dignity that we, along with millions of others, witnessed in the video of George Floyd’s last minutes. We are outraged at yet another...