liberation theology, catholic social teaching, & community organizing
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Resources from key partners
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A key part of CSPL’s philosophy is that in order to be radically working for change in the world, you must be radically grounded in the spirit. The Center for Action and Contemplation offers an abundance of resources to be contemplatives in action. Their Engaged Contemplation course is an incredible resource for justice-seekers looking to deepen their contemplative practice.
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CSPL’s intern, David Inczauskis, has created a podcast focused on liberation theology. Liberation theology is a key framework for CSPL’s work and is a necessary component of the Christian and Catholic life.
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This resource offers critical perspectives and a historical framework for the Bible, including the extracanonical texts and Gospels. This helps us to understand the Bible in greater depth.
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By Daryl Russell Grigsby, this book contains thirty-six portraits of contemporary Catholics that show how they have lived the eucharistic prayer, "Lord, make of us an eternal offering to you" in their commitment to the common good and to human flourishing.
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Daily Prayer for Today’s Catholic
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Give Us This Day is a monthly publication for today’s Catholic that helps you pray each and every day. Drawing inspiration from a multitude of voices, it provides a relevant and trustworthy understanding of Scripture.
Catholic Women Preach: Feast of St. Mary Magdalene
Joanna Arellano-Gonzalez, Director of Training and Spiritual & Theological Formation, preaches for Catholic Women Preach for the Feast of Saint Mary Magdalene, July 22, 2026.
Jesus and Justice: Organizing for God’s Reign on Earth (Then and Now)
Co-authored by Michael Okinczyc-Cruz and John Dominic Crossan, Jesus and Justice presents the life of the historical Jesus as a bold and transformative call to action, inviting readers to actively follow his nonviolent and revolutionary example. Grounded in rigorous historical analysis, the authors show how Jesus organized a grassroots movement of poor and marginalized peasants to confront the Roman Empire’s economic, political, and ideological domination—an imperial system with striking parallels to today’s corporate-driven global order.
Catholic Women Preach: 4th Sunday of Advent
Joanna Arellano-Gonzalez, Director of Training and Spiritual & Theological Formation, preaches for Catholic Women Preach for the Fourth Sunday of Advent, offering a reflection on dreaming a new way into being.
CSPL Advent Calendar
CSPL Christmas Advent Calendar: 24 days of praying, reflecting, and acting for justice.
Toolkit: How to Plan a Eucharistic Procession Nonviolent Direct Action
This toolkit offers spiritual framing, practical planning guides, and organizing tools to help your community embody the Gospel’s call to solidarity through a reverent and nonviolent Eucharistic Procession. Use it to transform your parish’s devotion into a bold act of faith that publicly confronts injustice and proclaims dignity for all people.
Toolkit: How to Plan a Justice-Rooted Posadas
This toolkit equips parish communities to plan a prayerful, nonviolent direct action rooted in the sacred journey of Mary and Joseph. Inside, you’ll find practical guides, spiritual grounding, and organizing tools to help your community confront injustice with courage and hope.
Parish Preparedness Packet - ICE Rapid Response
Right now, we must prepare our parish communities to protect one another in the face of ICE/DHS raids. We have created a free to help you inform everyone of their rights and be prepared to respond. Schedule a time to pick up a packet for your parish, school, or organization today!
Know Your Rights: Parish Edition
We must keep our parishioners safe. Print and display these signs, and implement the steps to be prepared, to educate your parish community on what to do if agents show up at your church.
Renewing Politics from the Ground Up: Lessons from Latino Organizing
Joanna Arellano-Gonzalez, co-founder and director of training and formation at the Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership (CSPL), was a panelist for this September 29 Latino Leader Gathering on “Renewing Politics from the Ground Up: Lessons from Latino Organizing, ” hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University.
2025 Nonviolent Direct Action Workshop
On September 24, we held a Nonviolent Direct Action Workshop, where our leaders found grounding in the theological background of the nonviolent movement Jesus created and led and prepared for upcoming nonviolent direct actions.
Toolkit: How to Plan a People’s Mass & Spiritually-rooted Nonviolent Direct Action
Right now, we must rise together to peacefully demonstrate that the attacks on our immigrant communities counter the truth of the gospel. We encourage you — no matter where you are in the country — to use this toolkit to help you plan a prayerful nonviolent direct action with your faith community.
Prayers for Justice + Peace
Right now, we must rise together in faith and courage. These prayers were written so that anyone unable to attend our People’s Mass on Saturday, September 13, outside the Great Lakes Naval Station, can pray with and for us in solidarity.
We invite you to pray with us from 10 AM to 12 PM on Saturday, September 13, and continue using these prayers as we stand in the legacy of Jesus and the prophets, saints, and movement leaders who teach us that nonviolent action can transform our world.
Toward Political Holiness: Know your Faith and Know Your Rights Training
This workshop, created in early 2025, explains in detail the rights of people of any immigration status, preparing you to act if you encounter ICE or other law enforcement, whether at work, in your car, at home, or out in public.
9 Steps for Spiritual Preparedness in Moments of Crisis
In the words of Jon Sobrino, every moment of crisis is the time to embrace our call to “political holiness.” We cannot allow moments of crisis or fear to paralyze us. We have God, and we have one another.
In these moments, the false spirit (as Fr. Dan Hartnett, SJ calls it) uses the tactics of fear and isolation to drive us deeper into despair, whereas, the Good spirit moves us into community, trust, and courage. Let us follow the whispers and guidance of the Good Spirit.
These resources are offered to help you spiritually prepare in this critical moment. In this defining moment, we must be disciplined in grounding and nourishing our spiritual lives, for it is from that wellspring that we draw the courage, clarity, and resilience to move forward.
Discernment of Spirits for the Art of Leadership
Discernment of spirits is when we seek to distinguish between different kinds of spiritual stirrings in our hearts, identifying those that are of God and those that are not. Download this workshop to learn how to apply discernment of spirits to your everyday life and leadership.
We need to practice this tool every day, especially in these times of political chaos and suppression. There are alt-right forces who are twisting Scripture and the personhood of Jesus to promote hate and division, so we must all be attentive to the true voice of the Good Spirit.
The Crucified Peoples of Today
The Cross is not history: it’s today.
Who is being crucified today?
Who is being oppressed, marginalized, and silenced by modern-day "empires," those in power who subject peoples to violence, terror, and shame?
What brings the Cross out of history and to our current times?
Discernment of Spirits Cartoons
A series of cartoons designed to help people of faith understand and practice discernment of spirits. By Sr. Leanne Hubbard, SND, DMin
Imago Divina
Learn what imago divina is and how you, too, can experience the richness of this practice in contemplation.
ICE Rapid Response Toolkit
The newly released toolkit from the Catholic Legal Immigration Network is based on best practices and lessons learned from communities conducting rapid responses during ICE raids and arrests. It provides a plan of action for communities to support and guide people during and after a raid, as well as a how-to guide and a model notebook to help you build an inclusive rapid response team. Help empower your community by organizing and staying informed.
Archbishop Oscar Romero
“A church that doesn’t provoke any crises, a gospel that doesn’t unsettle, a word of God that doesn’t get under anyone’s skin, a word of God that doesn’t touch the real sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed – what gospel is that?
—Archbishop Oscar Romero
From a past CSPL Membership Meeting; presented by John DeCostanza