Social Justice

1. Send Electronic Christmas Cards: Sending your Christmas greetings electronically is good for Creation because it saves trees. If you want to send a personal Christmas greeting to close friends and family, use recycled paper to make your own Christmas Cards.

2. Make Your Own Decorations: This can become a wonderful family tradition. Use recycled materials or natural materials like pinecones, leaves, vines. Making your own Christmas wreath out of materials you collected is carbon neutral and positively fun!

In November, we Catholics will be called upon to exercise our privilege of voting for our country’s leaders. The ongoing discussion by candidates for leadership should be based on how we as Americans can work together to defend the life and dignity of the human person, and tend to the needs of the poor and vulnerable in our society. Catholic Social Teaching is clear on this call, rooted in the understanding that every human being is created in the image of God.
 

If you have a custom of making new year resolutions, why not make them about helping the environment this year. The following guidelines are adapted from The Consumer’s Guide to Effective Environmental Choices, Union of Concerned Scientists (available from the Port library):

Farming and Faith “A poor person’s field may produce abundant food, but injustice sweeps it away.” (Prov. 13:23). God’s justice is rooted in our stewardship of the earth, part of which is to be informed on legislation that affects food policy. Soon, Congress will begin debating the 2007 Farm Bill -- this bill significantly impacts land-use policies,