Latest News:

-- Read the Haiti Group's Trip Report from the Oct.-Nov. 2011 adventure!

-- Watch a fabulous 12 min. video on the Maria Madre's recent trip to El Salvador to visit our sister parish!

Communities taking action with and for the poor.
DC Council votes to restore a substantial number of the cuts to services for the homeless and affordable housing!  More

Calendar of Social Justice Ministry Events:

Overview of Social Justice Ministry Programs: 

 • Social Justice E-Letter:  The Social Justice Ministry sends out an E-Letter  monthly with updates on direct service and advocacy opportunities and upcoming events. To sign up, email Ron Castaldi,  rcastaldi@holytrinitydc.org.  202-903-2809. 

• Mission, Vision and History

CORE PRACTICES
1. Direct Service and Volunteer Opportunities       
     Ongoing Opportunities

2. Prayer and Reflection 

3. Education: Catholic Social Teaching
                       Just Faith Program

4. Advocacy and Structural Justice
    - Affordable Housing 
    - Immigration
    - Peace, Disarmament, Poverty...
 
5. Donations
     *Urgent Community Needs
     Parish Tithe and Grant Recipients 2011 
     Tithe - Distribution and Grants Plan 2010 – 2012
     Calender of Drives
     Giving Tree 2010

PARISH GROUPS WORKING WITH SOCIAL JUSTICE MINISTRY
      Environmental Stewardship Group
      Haiti Group
      Hands on Housing

Maria Madre de los Pobres, Sister Parish in El Salvador
      History, Program Today, and Pentecost Reflections
      Notes from 2011 Visit 

 St. Aloysius, Sister Parish in DC
      Fr. McKenna Center
      St. Al's Social Justice Committee

About Social Justice Ministry:
The Social Justice Ministry responds in prayer and reflection, direct service, education, advocacy, and donations to the needs of the parish, to the social needs in the diverse urban diocese and community who are our neighbors, and beyond these borders to a sister parish and national and international Jesuit social services.  When program priorities are being set and choices made about resource allocation, the Ministry actively advocates for preferential treatment for the poor and marginalized in our community in light of the Gospel, Catholic Social Teaching and the priorities of the Jesuit Conference.