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 and the home of the JPIC Commission, which provides the Province’s leadership on JPIC matters. Our priority areas include: racism, environment, immigration, human trafficking, poverty, and non-violence/peace-making.
About White Fragility (from publisher Beacon Press): “The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows…
We support the recent statement put out by Pax Christi USA and we urge you to take action by calling Congress and the White House.
The final report of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada.
The final report of the national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls in Canada.
If we don’t recognize the system, our inaction will uphold it. The question is not whether I have been shaped by and participate in the forces of racism, it’s how I’ve been shaped by them.
Our Easter Monday Earth Day prayer ends our Lenten Journey together but not our life-long journey as disciples of the risen Christ called to: care for our Common Home stand with migrants with a solidarity heart work to end racism in all its forms work towards gender equity and equality for all examine our own…
Join us as we reflect on the significance of this day of waiting and hope for us today. Let us join the people at the tomb. Let us pray with and for those waiting for justice, peace and equity. Reflect on how you are called to be an ambassador of radical hope here and now!
Holy Thursday gives us countless opportunities for prayer, service, friendship, and community. It is in the ordinary small acts where we have a profound, long-lasting effect. It is an opportunity to listen and contemplate the infinite and unconditional LOVE of Jesus.
Our Good Friday reflections remind us of our Lord’s suffering at the hands of an unjust system and of one who washed his hands of responsibility. As we enter into Jesus’ experience we invite you to recognize the experiences of complicity and suffering in your own life and in our world.
This week we enter into Holy Week and approach the end of our JPIC Lenten Journey. As you recall we began the season with a self-paced retreat and now we close with one. We invite you to take longer periods of reflection and meditation this weekend to prepare ourselves to live Holy Week and walk with Jesus. The best…
As we have heard and know (in our heads), power in itself is neither good nor bad; it is a matter of how we use it. The reality, however, is that this can sound a bit cliché and a lot different than what we experience, observe, exercise in our everyday lives. Lent is the PERFECT TIME…
Attached is the Newsletter, New Frontiers – A quarterly newsletter for global education and advocacy – from the JPIC Office, Rome/ UN-NGO Office, New York.