Catholic Social Teaching

Provides assistance to those in our community who are in need of permanent housing or emergency lodging.

The primary social service arm of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Greensburg and rooted in the Gospel and social teaching of the church.

Volunteers assist Westmoreland County seniors by providing much needed services.

The mission is to identify and provide for health and social service needs throughout the southwestern Pennsylvania region.

The Thomas Merton Center works to build a consciousness of values and to raise the moral questions involved in the issues of war, poverty, racism, classism, economic justice, human rights, and environmental justice. TMC engages people of diverse philosophies and faiths who find common ground in the nonviolent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world.

Makes Westmoreland County a better place to live by helping struggling families improve their standard of living and become more self sufficient.

A private, not-for-profit organization that supplies food to hungry people through a network of food assistance programs in Westmoreland County.

The Catholic Climate Covenant helps Catholics act individually and collectively to address climate change.

What is contained herein is but one person's attempt to teach and defend the Church's teachings - ecological and otherwise.

Catholic peacebuilding employs the theology, institutional relationships, and spiritual strength provided through the Catholic Church to bring greater justice and peace in the world. It involves both clergy and laity. As a Catholic network, CPN believes that authentic and effective peacebuilding involves dialogue and collaboration with those of other religious traditions and all those committed to building a more just and peaceful world.

Comprised of dedicated bishops, laity and religious who are joined in a common effort to serve the rural church, rural people and their communities.

The Catholic Worker Movement is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person. Today 227 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary poverty, prayer, and hospitality for the homeless, exiled, hungry, and foresaken. Catholic Workers continue to protest injustice, war, racism, and violence of all forms.

This tool allows you to find what constitutes a "living wage" or "poverty wage" for various family configurations in different states and counties. It also provides typical wages for various occupations in those regions.

A Catholic Social Justice Lobby

Working for peace with justice

Priests for Life refers to a very specific effort to galvanize the clergy to preach, teach, and mobilize their people more effectively in the effort to end abortion and euthanasia.Priests for Life represents a family of ministries that reach and enrich every aspect of the pro-life movement, for clergy and laity alike, in a wide variety of activities.

The Roundtable Association of Diocesan Social Action Directors is the national professional association for those who staff Catholic bishops on matters of justice and peace. Its mission is to provide professional support to members through education, formation, professional relationships, and management development. Associate membership is available to religious order peace and justice directors.

"The Thomas Merton Center is the official repository of Merton's artistic estate."