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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 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.

A Reflection from the Catholic Day of Action with Dreamers

Mar 12, 2018 JPIC

First, I want to thank each one of you throughout the Sacred Heart Family who held me in prayer on February 27th as I joined with 41 other women religious, priests and laypeople in an act of civil disobedience in...

Diane Roche, rscj, Bill Hobbs, and Helen Young at the screening of “The Priests, the Nuns and the Bomb”

Catholic Coalition Film Screening

Feb 28, 2018 JPIC

The Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Office of the Society of the Sacred Heart, Pax Christi International, and the Franciscan Action Network co-hosted a screening of filmmaker Helen Young's “The Priests, the Nuns and the Bomb”, a...

Human Trafficking and the Super Bowl

Feb 02, 2018 JPIC

Human Trafficking experts agree that there is an uptick in human trafficking around big sporting events but they want to caution us not to get lulled into thinking that it is an issue that can be addressed on only one day of the year.

Statement Against Rescinding Temporary Protected Status

Jan 12, 2018 JPIC

The Society of the Sacred Heart stands with and echoes the Leadership Conference of Women Religious' statement in regards to the Trump administration's decision to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Hondurans.

The Leadership...

Statement on Immigration

Oct 16, 2017 JPIC

The Society of the Sacred Heart in the United States and Canada began – as did so many American institutions – with an immigrant. St. Rose Philippine Duchesne left her home in France in 1818 with a desire to educate the poor, especially the...

Statement of Solidarity

Oct 04, 2017 JPIC

As Religious of the Sacred Heart in the United States-Canada Province, we are called by our recent Chapter Documents to stand in solidarity with “those who have been wounded, displaced, and excluded because of poverty, violence, and environmental...