The Office offers parishes effective tools for development of social concerns/justice activities and structures. Staff works directly with pastors and parish social concerns commissions or committees to assist them in making the work of justice an integral part of parish life. This work includes:
Training parish leaders in specific skills related to social concerns/justice
Offering concrete vehicles for Catholics and others to become involved in the work of justice. This includes the Social Concerns Office's special areas of concentration:
Prison concerns advocacy and ministry
Death penalty
Rural life (preserving family farms, the environment and strengthening rural communities)
Economic justice (health care, welfare reform, fair and adequate taxation, state and federal budget issues, worker rights, jobs, just wages and immigration reform)
Working for peace
Educating Catholics and the broader community about the Church's social teaching
