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
We are excited to share our new initiative—the weekly Justice Hour. All are welcome. Please join us.
News
A Gospel Call to Nonviolence and Peace
We share this public statement from the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, Choosing Nonviolence as Gospel Witness, as an invitation to prayerful reflection and faithful action. Rooted in the life and teachings of Jesus the statement calls us to choose love, justice and peace in response to the urgent needs of our world today.
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
Uniting Neighbor to Neighbor—Immigration Court Support
Diocesan Pilgrimages of Hope for Creation
Advocate for the Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act
Learn, Reflect & Then—Do!
