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Books

Globalization and Catholic Social Thought Image

Globalization and Catholic Social Thought

Published in 2005, this book assesses the meaning of globalization and the capacity of Catholic social thought to understand, reform, and guide it.
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Faith and Freedom: The Life and Times of Bill Ryan sj Image

Faith and Freedom: The Life and Times of Bill Ryan sj

Published in 2002, this book follows the true story of Bill Ryan, sj from his roots in rural Canada, to his years in Washington, D.C., to Europe and back to Canada, charting the wide effect he had in each of those places.
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The Lab, the Temple and the Market Image

The Lab, the Temple and the Market

This book engages with the complex issue of development by putting it into conversation with four faith traditions; it includes a post-script, "Our Way of Proceeding," by Bill Ryan, sj.
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Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development Image

Culture, Spirituality, and Economic Development

How can human values and belief systems be integrated into our modern economic development paradigm? Bill Ryan sets out to answer this and other questions in this short book.
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World Faiths and the New World Order Image

World Faiths and the New World Order

Comprises the texts of papers prepared for the Interreligious Peace Colloquium, held in Lisbon in 1977.
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Seminars

Cry of the Poor, Cry of the Earth: What has spirituality got to do with social justice and ecology? Image

Cry of the Poor, Cry of the Earth: What has spirituality got to do with social justice and ecology?

How can we relate spirituality, social justice, and ecology in a way that makes sense and creates change for our modern world? This document offers a summary of some of the responses to this question given at a seminar held in Ontario in 2011.
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Videos

The Jesuit Forum

An introduction to the Jesuit Forum.

Laudato Si (A Canadian Response)

This video presents the views of nine prominent (and soon to be prominent) Canadians, including David Suzuki, Maude Barlow, Silver Don Cameron and Gregor Robertson, as they reflect on the Encyclical Laudato Si'. Twenty-three excerpts from Laudato Si' help the viewer read the actual words of the 192-page document.

Joanna Macy: Embracing Pain

Joanna Macy, Ph.D., is a scholar of Buddhism, general systems theory, and deep ecology. In her workshops she counsels the embracing of pain about the world as a way of deepening our connection to it.

Landscape of brightly coloured fields near Sarraud, Vaucluse, France (44°01’ N, 5°24’ E).
There is life in beauty! Escaping temporarily the “rapidification” of our life to pause and contemplate the beauty of nature reconnects us with our innate sense of wonder. And wonder can lead to hope.

© Yann Arthus Bertrand

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