Justice & Care for Creation
Our World, Our Hope, Our Responsibility!
Mission
The Justice & Care for Creation Ministry of the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester seeks to raise awareness and deepen understanding of issues of injustice toward our neighbor and our earth. Having learned and prayed, we move toward loving action, individually and in collaboration with others.
Inspired by Catholic social teaching and in alignment with our SSJ Charism, we strive to:
promote peace & nonviolence
work for economic justice
welcome the stranger
respect the human dignity of all
seek ecological conversion
How we work:
Uniting Neighbor to Neighbor & All to God
A Charism of Unifying Love
News
Pope Leo has issued his first encyclical: Magnifica Humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.
At this time, when technology is moving so fast, the Pope has issued a powerful call to slow down and remember to love one another. Learn more about the encyclical.
Panel discussion from the CSSJ community: Register here
From Georgetown University: AI, Catholic Social Teaching, and Pope Leo’s New Encyclical
From US Catholic: 10 quotes from Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, ‘Magnifica Humanitas’
From the Ignatian Solidarity Network: Three Ecological Themes in Magnifica Humanitas.
The Immigration Crisis
The basic desire of the Sisters of Saint Joseph is to reflect a “profound love of God and neighbor without distinction.” Therefore we pray and act:
Read the USCCB Special Message on Immigration
“As pastors, we the bishops of the United States are bound to our people by ties of communion and compassion in Our Lord Jesus Christ. We are disturbed when we see among our people a climate of fear and anxiety around questions of profiling and immigration enforcement. We are saddened by the state of contemporary debate and the vilification of immigrants. We are concerned about the conditions in detention centers and the lack of access to pastoral care. We lament that some immigrants in the United States have arbitrarily lost their legal status. We are troubled by threats against the sanctity of houses of worship and the special nature of hospitals and schools. We are grieved when we meet parents who fear being detained when taking their children to school and when we try to console family members who have already been separated from their loved ones.”
Just Us
Learn, Reflect & Then—Do!
