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Links to additional faith-based social justice ministries

Catholic Social Justice Organizations

8th Day Center for Justice  http://www.8thdaycenter.org

Franciscan Action Network  http://www.franciscanaction.org

NETWORK http://www.networklobby.org

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Office of Justice, Peace and Human Development http://www.usccb.org/about/justice-peace-and-human-development/index.cfm

The Common Good

Catholic Charities http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org

Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good http://www.catholicsinalliance.org

Catholics United http://www.catholics-united.org

Economic Justice and Responsible Investing

Center of Concern https://www.coc.org

Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility http://www.iccr.org

Jubilee USA Network http://www.jubileeusa.org/home.html

Mary's Pence http://www.maryspence.org

Partners for the Common Good http://www.pcgloanfund.org

Environmental Justice and Earth Literacy

Catholic Climate Covenant http://catholicclimatecovenant.org

Center for Earth Jurisprudence  http://earthjuris.org

Genesis Farm  http://www.genesisfarm.org

Santuario Sisterfarm  http://www.sisterfarm.org/home.html

White Violet Center for Eco-Justice  http://spsmw.org/white-violet-center-for-eco-justice/

Justice in the Church

Call to Action http://www.cta-usa.org

FutureChurch  http://futurechurch.org

Justice for Immigrants

Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform  http://www.justiceforimmigrants.org/index.shtml

Interfaith Immigration Coalition http://www.interfaithimmigration.org

Peacemaking

Pax Christi, USA http://paxchristiusa.org

School of the Americas Watch http://soaw.org

SHARE El Salvador http://www.share-elsalvador.org

Transformation of Consciousness

Green Mountain Monastery http://www.greenmountainmonastery.org

Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue  http://www.iccdinstitute.org

The Sisters

Additional sisters appearing in Band of Sisters

About the Film

"I did exactly what the church asked me--and now, the church is looking at me like, where have you come from...who are you?" says Sister Nancy Sylvester, IHM (Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary), in Band of Sisters about the remarkable transformation of Catholic nuns in the United States since Vatican II of the 1960s, and the reaction of some members of the church hierarchy who oppose their changes. Perhaps more than any other group, U.S. nuns embraced Vatican II's call to serve where there was the greatest need.

Vatican II

Vatican II

In the static convent setting of the 1950's, a rigid schedule prescribed daily life down to the minute. The goal for the sisters was to achieve perfection and holiness, and the best way to do this was to remove oneself from the world to the furthest extent possible. Everything changed in the aftermath of Vatican II, a 1962-65 council meeting in Rome of all the world's Catholic bishops, convened by Pope John XXIII to bring the church into the modern world.