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EVANGELIZATION
Paulist National Evangelization Association
Paulist Evangelization Training Institutes
PNCEA annually offers Summer Training Institutes to parish and diocesan leaders at St. Paul's College in Washington, D.C., and upon request, presents this program in other regions of the country.
Paulist National Evangelization Association • 3031 Fourth Street NE • Washington DC 20017 • 202-832-5022
National Council for Catholic Evangelization
The NCCE is an independent membership organization founded in 1938 to promote evangelization as based on Evangelii Nuntiandi by Pope Paul VI. The NCEE exists to affirm, to motivate and to network Catholic evangelization efforts throughout the United States. We seek to accomplish our mission by calling together Catholic evangelizers, nationally and locally, to reflect upon, to develop and to promote ways of becoming and evangelizing Church.
National Council for Catholic Evangelization • P. O. Box 1260 • South Holland, IL 60473-1260 • (800) 786-NCCE • E-mail: JNSNCCE@aol.com
MINISTRY
Crossroads Ministry
Crossroads is an interfaith organization that provides anti-racist education, training and organizing skills. Crossroads believes that racism is a moral, spiritual and political issues. Crossroads was founded in 1986 as an effort to develop new directions in understanding and combating the root causes of institutional racism in the United States.
The primary focus of Crossroads is to train teams within institutions, helping them to analyze racism and to develop and implement strategies to dismantle racism within their structures.
Please note: This training is comprehensive. And it neccessitates a number of parishes joining together for the training process. If your parish is interested, please contact the Peace and Social Justice Office and we will help coordinate a cooperative program among interested parishes. This is our top recommendation.
Rev. Joe Barndt • Crossroads Ministry • 425 S. Central Park Avenue • Chicago, IL 60624 • 773-638-0166
Anti-Racism Institute
Offers study and training programs designed to help parishes, individuals, and organizations understand, analyze and combat racism; participants are guided in collaborative development of tools to address racism and shape anti-racist institutions
Clergy and Laity Concerned • Nancy Jones • 772 W. Washington, Suite 1124 • Chicago, IL 60602 • 312-630-1960
EMPLOYMENT
Project Equality
National program of advocacy and technical assistance to secure equal employment opportunity. Produces a Buyer’s Guide of companies committed to equal employment opportunities. Offers technical assistance to employers and advocates. Provides video resources and information to promote equal employment opportunities.
Rev. Kirk Perucca • Project Equality • 6301 Rockhill Rd. Suite • 315 Kansas City, MO 64131 • 816-361-8997 (Chicago office in transition)
HOUSING
Mr. Bruce Cowhig • Kankakee Neighborhood Housing Services • P. O. Box 831 • Kankakee, IL 60901
Sr. Ruth Westmoreland (contact) • Habitat for Humanity affiliates c/o Catholic Charities • 203 N. Ottawa • Joliet, IL 60432 • 815-723-3405
Transitional Housing Programs c/o Catholic Charities • 203 N. Ottawa • Joliet, IL 60432 • 815-723-3405 (Also, check your local parish)
Mr. Bernie Kleina • Hope Fair Housing • 2100 Manchester Rd., Bldg. B-1070 • Wheaton, IL 60187 • 630-690-6500
Ms. Mary Jeanne Lindinger Olsen • Catholic Construction Corps - National Disaster Unit • Peace & Social Justice Ministry • 402 S. Independence Blvd. • Romeoville, IL 60446 • 815-834-4028
EDUCATION
With Dignity and Respect
Promoting multicultural books for children
With Dignity and Respect • 2405 Essington Road • Suite 82 • Joliet, IL 60435 • 815-744-0364 • Teaching Tolerance
Southern Poverty Law Center
Provides teachers at all levels with resources and ideas for promoting interracial and intercultural understanding in the classroom. Free to teachers.
Southern Poverty Law Center • 400 Washington Ave. • Montgomery, Alabama 36104 • 334-264-3121
Building A New Community: God’s Children Overcoming Racism
Publisher: Shalom Education
Grades 4-9 Bible studies, creative activities, worship resources, continuing contemporary story. Teacher’s Guide: $8.95; Children’s book: $3.95
Wendy Morris • 2121 Sheridan Rd. • Evanston, IL 60201 • 847-866-3962 • E-mail: w-morris@nwu.edu
Teaching Responsibility and Learning To Build Cultural Bridges
Authors: Patricia Frisby and Sr. Francis Ault, O.P. Grades 6-12. Group exercises and critical thinking. 16 week program. $13.50
Order from Simon & Schuster • ISBN #0-536-59842-8, published January 1997
(800) 428-4466 Ext. 7004 (Nancy Keith)
Peace and Social Justice Ministry
Website: www.paxjoliet.org/justeach.html
Ideas, lesson plans for infusing curriculum with Catholic Social Teaching
A World of Difference
Publisher: Anti-Defamation League
Grades 7-12; Teachers of pre-school – 12th grade. Awareness and understanding of the detrimental effects of racism, prejudice, anti-Semitism and discrimination. Guide only sold through teacher trainings; activity guide $35
Julie Flapan • A World of Difference – Chicago 309 W. Washington • Suite 750 • Chicago, IL 60606 • (312) 782-5080
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves Foundation
Grades 7-12 Purpose is to engage children of diverse backgrounds in an examination of prejudice, racism and anti-Semitism. Teacher training – 5 day summer institute w/ free guides and videos $200.
Anne Marie Ryan • Facing History and Ourselves Foundation • 222 N. LaSalle, Suite 1414 • Chicago, IL 60601 • (312) 726-4500
Educators for Social Responsibility Publications
Publisher: Educators for Social Responsibility
Grades Pre-Kindergarten – 12. Purpose is to help young people develop convictions and skills to shape a safe, sustainable, and just world.
Books and posters from $9 to $40: classroom kits from $300 to $1200.
Educators for Social Responsibility • 23 Garden St. • Cambridge, MA 021238 • (617) 492-1764 or (800) 370-2525
Healing The Hate
Publisher: Education Development Center, Inc.
The goal of this program is to teach that violence and prejudice are preventable.
213 page textbook and handouts. Cost ?
Karen A. McLaughlin • National Hate Crime Prevention Project • 55 Chapel St. • Newton, MA 02158 • (800) 225-4276
Educating for Peace and Justice
Publisher: The Institute for Peace and Justice
Provides a methodology for peace education, visualizing peace in all its positive senses, and the realization of justice.
Cost: Manual $9.95
Institute for Peace and Justice • 4144 Lindell Blvd., Suite 124 • St. Louis, MO 63108
Anti-Bias/Diversity Catalog for Classroom and Community
Publisher: Anti-Defamation League
The catalog lists resources for areas including diversity, multi-cultural issues and discrimination.
Cost: Free
Anti-Defamation League – Chicago • 309 W. Washington, Suite 750 • Chicago, IL 60606
Teaching Peace Songbook and Teacher’s Guide
Publisher: Smilin’ Atcha Music, Inc.
Promoting the concepts of peacemaking, conflict resolution and multi-culturalism through song. For grades K through 6. Songbook and Cassette/CD
Smilin’Atcha Music, Inc. • P. O. Box 446 • Chester NY 10916 • (914) 469-9450
Who Are My Sisters and Brothers?
Publisher: United States Catholic
Conference Classroom/group activities and discussions for school and religious education programs, grades K-12. Suggested formats for classrooms, retreats, projects, etc.
Teacher’s guide Publication No. 5-006 • U. S. Catholic Conference • Washington, DC • ISBN 1-57455-006 • USCC phone (800) 235-8722
Educating for a Just Society
Publisher: The Institute for Peace and Justice
For teachers of grades 7-12. Methodology for educating for peace and justice that calls for awareness moving to concern and action. Manual provides resources, lesson plans, worksheets and suggested activities.
Cost: Manual $12.00
Institute for Peace and Justice • 4144 Lindell Blvd., Suite 124 • St. Louis, MO 63108
Human Rights: Do It Justice! & Poverty: Do It Justice!
Publisher: Don Bosco Multimedia
Part of the Do It Justice! Series that provides awareness and action activities for social justice, background essays and resource listings for teachers of grades 6-12.
Don Bosco Multimedia • 475 North Ave. • P. O. Box T • New Rochelle, NY 10802 • (203) 723-1624
DISCIPLESHIP
Preaching the Just Word
Walter J. Burghardt, SJ, and the Woodstock Theological Center sponsor preaching retreat/workshops. Topics include a biblical view of justice, Catholic social teachings, liturgy, and homiletics.
The Woodstock Theological Center • Preaching the Just Word • Georgetown University • Washington, D.C. 20057-1097 • 202-687-4223 • Contact: Rev. Raymond Kemp
Parish Wide Process
Many Faces in God’s House (Encuentro 2000)
An opportunity for the Church to gather to engage in profound conversations about life and faith: to worship together, to learn from each other, to forgive one another and be reconciled, to acknowledge our unique histories, and to discover ways in which we as Catholic communities can be one Church, yet come from diverse cultures and ethnicities.
Six session process suitable for large and small group process.
Sister Judy Callahan • Office of Hispanic Ministry • 402 S. Independence Blvd. • Romeoville, Illinois 60446 • 815-834-4037
Small Group Resources
Brothers and Sisters to Us – Small Group Study Process.
A Renew-like program written by Sacred Heart Parish, Joliet. Study and Reflection on racism using the U.S. Bishops’ statement on racism of the same name.
Sacred Heart Parish 337 S. Ottawa Street Joliet, Illinois 60436 815-722-0295
Crossing the Racial Divide: America's Struggle for Justice and Reconciliation
Racism has never been considered the topic of polite conversation. But challenging white supremacy and institutional racism requires stepping out in hope, not holding back in fear.
Help your community take the next step with Crossing the Racial Divide: America's Struggle for Justice and Reconciliation. This challenging, hope-filled resource offers a fresh look at a complex issue, holding up insights from the streets and from the gospel to create powerful models of reconciliation with justice. Authors include Eugene Rivers, Prathia Hall-Wynn, Winona LaDuke, Yvonne Delk, Jim Wallis, Spencer Perkins, and Chris Rice. Includes lesson plans and study questions, making it ideal for small group, classroom, or individual study.
Sojourners, • 2401 15th Street NW, • Washington DC 20009. • Phone: 202-328-8842 or 1-800-714-7474. • Fax: 202-328-8757. • Email: sojourners@sojourners.com.
America's Original Sin: A Study Guide on White Racism
Confronting racism has become an issue of life or death for this nation. America's Original Sin is designed to help us all deal more deeply with the issue of racism. This 180-page resource is divided into nine chapters and provides practical suggestions for action, information about national organizations, and books and resources for further study.
Sojourners, • 2401 15th Street NW, • Washington DC 20009. • Phone: 202-328-8842 or 1-800-714-7474. • Fax: 202-328-8757. • Email: sojourners@sojourners.com.
Study Circles: Facing the Challenge of Racims and Race Relations
A comprehensive discussion and resource guide for study circle organizers, facilitators and participants. It is designed to provide constructive dialogue which will lead to local action and community building, while also providing opportunities for meaningful give-and-take dialogue between study circle participants and public officials.
Study Circles Resource Center P.O. Box 203 Pomfret, CT 06258
Beyond Boundaries
A Renew-like program for parishes in Baltimore. Can be adapted. Small groups meet for six weeks to reflect on race and social policy in light of the gospel. There’s a similar one-day program for institutional leaders.
Bishop Francis Murphy • Chancery Office • 320 Cathedral Street • Baltimore, MD 21201
Enter the River Study Guide
The guide provides discussion questions, activity ideas, supplemental homework assignments and informational handouts. A limited number of worship resources are also included. Written primarily for European-American audiences. If you are leading this in a racially diverse group, you may need to modify some of the activities to include more people.
Written for the Mennonite Church, it can be adapted for any denomination.
Tobin Miller Shearer • Racism Awareness Program Director • Mennonite Central Committee • P.O. Box 500 • Akron, PA 17501-0500 • 717-859-3889 • TMS@mccus.org
Appreciating Differences
Produced by the National Conference, formerly the National Conference of Christian and Jews.
Designed to help people become more aware of and sensitive to their attitudes toward differences. It provides materials and exercises which are directed toward self-examination and the dynamics of relating to one another.
The National Conference • 360 N. Michigan Avenue • Suite 1009 • Chicago, Illinois 60601 • 312-236-9272
WORKSHOPS
Healing Racism: Understanding the Cycle of Racial Conditioning
An education experience that helps people connect across color lines, overcome prejudice, create a just society, and stop participating in their own internalized oppression
Healing Racism Network of Metro Chicago • PO Box 5187 • Evanston, IL 60204 • 847/475-2202
Recovering From Racisms: An Interactive Workshop for Diversity Training
Developed by Fr. Clarence Williams, CPPS to address the dysfunction of racism through a recovery model.
Institute for Recovery from Racisms • Fr. Clarence Williams, CPPS, Ph.D, Director • 11430 Morang Drive • Detroit, Michigan 48224 • 313-521-7777
Institute for Peace and Justice
Jim and Kathy McGinnis tailor workshops on racism for various levels of parish life. They provide creative interactive sessions that help the participants deal with racism in an age appropriate way.
Institute for Peace and Justice • 4144 Lindell, #124 • St. Louis, Mo 63108
CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING AND ACTION
Moving Faith Into Action
A proven process for forming or rejuvenating a social justice committee. Participants engage in discovery of the Church’s social mission as found in Scripture and Church Teaching, development of social action skills which lead to identification of social concerns and needs that the parish can and ought to address, along with definition of attainable goals, and spiritual reflection on the relationship of prayer and action, and our concern for our neighbors.
Peace and Social Justice Ministry • 402 S. Independence Blvd. • Romeoville, IL 60446 • 815-834-4028 • Contact: Joyce
ON-LINE RESOURCES
Peace and Social Justice Ministry www.paxjoliet.org/racism.htm
SELECTED READINGS ON RACISM AND CATHOLIC SOCIAL TEACHING
Race Matters by Cornell West Vintage Books, NY, NY, 1993
Ending Racism in the Church Susan E. Davies & Paul Teresa Hennessee, S.A. Editors United Church Press, Cleveland OH, 1998
Enter the River: Healing Steps from White Privilege Toward Racial Reconciliation, by Jody Miller Shearer. Herald Press, Scottdale, PA, 1994
Catholic Social Teaching: How I Lived It by Phil Land, Center of Concern, (202) 635-2757
Catholic Social Teaching: Our Best Kept Secret by Peter Henriot et al. Orbis Books (800) 258-5838
Bringing Forth Justice: Basics for Just Christians by Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk. Paulist Press, (800) 836-3161.
The Christian Call to Justice and Peace by Joseph Stoutzenberger. St. Mary’s Press, (800) 533-8095.
Dimensions of Justice and Peace in Religious Education by Loretta Carey. National Catholic Educational Association, (202) 337-6232.
Doing Faith Justice: An Introduction to Catholic Social Thought by Fred Kammer. Paulist Press, (800) 836-3161.
Faith That Does Justice: Examining the Christian Sources for Social Change edited by John C. Haughey. Paulist Press, (800) 836-3161.
One Hundred Years of Catholic Social Thought edited by John Coleman. Orbis Books, (800) 258-5838.
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn. Harper Collins West, (800) 242-7737. History from the viewpoint of oppressed workers, women, persons of color.
Principles, Prophecy, and Pastoral Response: An Overview of Modern Catholic Social Teaching by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development and the U. S. Catholic Conference, (800) 235-8722.
Proclaiming Justice and Peace: Papal Documents from Rerum Novarum Through Centesimus Annus edited by Michael Walsh and Brian Davis. Twenty-Third Publications, (203) 536-2611.
Putting Children and Families First U. S. Catholic Conference, (800) 235-8722.
Sharing the Light of Faith: An Official Commentary U. S. Catholic Conference, (800) 235-8722. Chapter VII explores Catholic social teaching and offers guidelines on catechesis for social ministry.
Sharing the Tradition, Shaping the Future Catholic Campaign for Human Development, (202) 541-3212. Six themes of Catholic social teaching put into a small-group workbook.
