The Best Kept Secret
By Dr. Nancy Powers
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Answering the Call

Catholic Social Teaching offers us clarity, insight, and challenge. Here, I have merely grazed the surface of a deep and complex tradition. For further study, and for many ideas on how to take action at the individual, family, parish, and community levels, see:

• Faithful Citizenship: A Catholic Call to Political Responsibility
  

• A Place at the Table: A Catholic Recommitment to Overcome Poverty and to Respect the Dignity of All God's Children
  

• Thomas Massaro, S.J., Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action (Sheed & Ward, 2000).

Some means to get involved in working for social justice through the Church include:

• your parish Justice and Peace Committee
  (if necessary, start one!)

• your diocese's Black Ministry Office or Multicultural Ministry Office

• your diocese's Justice and Peace Commission (some dioceses don't have such a commission, but they may have an "Office of Social Concerns" and/or a Catholic Campaign for Human Development coordinator)

• your diocese's Catholic Charities agency.

Nancy Powers is a writer and grants consultant whose work deals with grassroots politics, poverty, human rights, and empowerment. She stumbled across the Church's best kept secret while doing her graduate work in Latin American politics at Notre Dame.

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