World Social Justice Day is February 20, 2025. In 2007, the General Assembly of the United Nations proclaimed this date to promote social justice and raise awareness about worldwide issues such as poverty, gender inequality, unemployment and human rights. The theme for this year’s observance is...
February is Black History Month. This year’s theme, identified by the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), is African Americans and Labor, focusing on the various and profound ways that work of all kinds—free and unfree, skilled and unskilled, vocational and voluntary—intersect with the collective experiences of Black people. Black people’s work has been ...
The value of work involving care for small children, the sick, disabled and elderly is an important component of Catholic Social Teaching which emphasizes human dignity, fostering solidarity with the vulnerable, and the common good. The demographics of longer lives and smaller families mean more...
As the new year unfolds, let’s turn our attention and prayer toward a more peaceful and equitable world. Catholic Relief Services sent out this beautiful and thoughtful prayer for peace.
Father of Jesus,
You who sent your angels to ...
Did you know that climate change is threatening children’s education around the world? Globally, extreme weather events are closing schools for days and sometimes weeks. While the greatest impact is felt in Asia and Africa, a recent estimate suggests that closures due to heat are increasing quickly in the United States as well. UNICEF studies reveal that children today are experiencing twice as...
A former athlete and alum from Oakville Senior High, Magdalen Pike, has founded a nonprofit, Passback, to “upcycle” used sports equipment of all kinds ranging from balls and cones to uniforms and bags. The donated items go to ...
As we draw close to the end of the Advent season, we at MMOC have been blessed with many resources in our bulletin that enrich our preparation for Christ’s birth. The Laudato Si’ movement has provided a beautiful prayer that celebrates this joyful event in the context of God as our creator. We are guided to...
As the holidays approach, there are steps we can take to shop in ways that protect our planet. Buy only what you or the recipient actually need; ask yourself if these purchases contribute to satisfaction of a need or to the person’s well-being. Consider ...
The Education for Justice newsletter, published by the Ignatian Solidarity Network, cites
data from the United Nations estimating that by the close of 2022, over 670 million people (just under 10% of global population) remained in extreme poverty, defined as ...
Prayer After the Elections
As the U.S. elections come to a close,
Help us to reflect not just on the elections’ outcomes
But also, on their significance for charting
The path to a just future for all....
The National Black Catholic Clergy Caucus of the United States voted to designate November as Black Catholic History Month in 1990. November marks a time when the Church prays for all saints and...