• Laudato Si Week and Catholic Climate Covenant

    “I renew my urgent call to respond to the ecological crisis, the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor cannot continue. Let’s take care of creation, a gift of our good Creator God.” ~Pope Francis Laudato Si offers a vision for creating a more just and sustainable world, a vision made even more timely…

  • Education for Justice

    This month we became organizational members of Education for Justice, which means we are entitled to up to 50 individual logins accessing the site’s vast database of justice resources for education and prayer. Education for Justice is a global digital subscription membership service that provides resources for those who wish to study, teach, and practice…

  • COVID-19 funding priorities

    The Society of the Sacred Heart joins 150 other Catholic organizations in urging Congress to direct COVID-19 funding to prioritize the needs of the poor and vulnerable as well as care for God’s creation.

  • Open Source Videoconferencing with Jitsi and Backdrop

    Video conferencing usage has spiked during this pandemic, and while Zoom has gotten most of the press, there are some other options out there. One of them also happens to be open source: Jitsi. We’ve begun some early work on integrating Jitsi into an easy to use module for Backdrop CMS.

  • Jubilee USA

    The Jubilee year was meant to restore equality among all of the children of Israel, offering new possibilities to families which had lost their property and even their personal freedom. Pope John Paul II As part of our effort to respond in love to the needs of the poor presented by COVID-19, the Society of…

  • Fragile threads that we can strengthen

    The quote at the bottom of March in our desktop calendar has been striking to me all month as the pandemic continues to unfold. Now that we’ve just turned the page to April I wanted to post it here: “Weaving involves two threads, one horizontal and the other vertical… Our broken, suffering world is bound…

  • JPIC April Printable Calendar

    Each of us shares responsibility for the protection and care of the most vulnerable, especially our children.  Globally, children find themselves in places of increasing risk, facing the challenges of migration, poverty, violence and unequal access to educational opportunities. In every way possible, we are called to be those adults who create a world that…

  • JPIC MARCH PRINTABLE CALENDAR

    Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg writes, “When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court] and I say, ‘When there are nine,’ people are shocked. But there’d been nine men, and nobody’s ever raised a question about that.”  (Georgetown, 2016). The JPIC Calendar for March invites you to explore…

  • JPIC February 2020 Printable Calendar

    Harriet Tubman reminds us “Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.”   With the attached JPIC Calendar for February and for Black History Month, we invite you to explore the lives of those who…

  • January 2020 Printable JPIC Calendar

    National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month “The scale of human trafficking is atrocious…We have to raise our voices for them. That means confronting the social and economic conditions that abet this crime..” – former United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon

  • Search Process for Administrative Assistant

    You will find the description of the position attached. Please forward this to candidates who meet the criteria listed and whose passion for our mission and the work of the stuartcenter.org makes them a good candidate. If you have questions, need additional information, or wish to submit a letter of interest please send an email to jobs@stuartcenter.org  …

  • Border Witness Program Through the Lens of the JPIC Imperatives

    We are pleased to announce the 2020 Border Witness Program in McAllen, Texas, the US side of the border with Reynosa, Mexico. The Border Witness Program provides a powerful, first-hand look at the human experience behind the issues as well as a critical, analytical look at the systemic issues contributing to the complexity of migration and immigration at the US-Mexico border.