Inspired by Catholic Social Teaching and life of our foundress Mother Clara, the Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation (JPIC) advocates for current Social Justice issues, inspiring Peace & Nonviolence, and caring for our shared home, Earth through the Laudato Si’ Action Platform.
An Advocacy Opportunity From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: In the budget process last year, Congress actually gave the Pentagon nearly $25 billion dollars more… Read More »Sign On: Pass the People Over Pentagon Act
An Advocacy Opportunity From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: With the latest round of mass shootings, including the one at Covenant School in Tennessee, some… Read More »Sign the Petition: Don’t militarize our schools
by Sister Bea Hernandez Single-use plastic is everywhere! Whether in our oceans, piling up on our coastlines, or contributing to our climate crisis, plastic pollution… Read More »Creating a Plastic-Free Kitchen
May 1—International Workers’ Day Also known as May Day, International Workers’ Day is a day to honor the workers and laborers around the world who… Read More »International Solidarity Days – May 2023
Benedictine monk Brother David Steindl-Rast believes that there are two qualities in our basic definition of gratitude. The first is appreciation—we recognize that something is valued without… Read More »Grateful For All Things – April 2023
An Advocacy Opportunity From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: The proposed Agricultural Resilience Act currently being considered as part of the Farm Bill that is… Read More »Urge Congress to Support Climate Resilient Food & Farms
An Advocacy Opportunity From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: It is time for our nation to get serious about turning away from dependence on fossil… Read More »Stop fossil fuel facilities before they’re even built
by Sister Bea Hernandez, Wheaton Franciscan JPIC Coordinator On March 27, 2023, another mass shooting at The Covenant Elementary School at Covenant Presbyterian Church in… Read More »Mass Shootings In the US Must End
From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: As the House and Senate debate the federal budget, some members are again threatening cuts to Medicaid and the… Read More »Tell Congress: Defend Medicaid and CHIP
From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: The annual US Budget Bill is a moral document which proclaims to the world what our real values are. … Read More »Tell Congress to Follow the Science and Support International Climate Finance
From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: We applaud the US Postal Service for its decision to begin to replace their truck fleets with electric, made… Read More »Electrify the Postal Service
From Sr. Bea Hernandez, JPIC Coordinator: The Willow Project is a decades long oil drilling project in the arctic proposed for the north slope of… Read More »Stop the Willow Project
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