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        • January Respect Life Events
        • Reproductive Freedom Act
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        • End of Life Issues
        • Stem Cell
        • Death Penalty
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      • Guidelines for Election Season
      • Resources
      • USCCB Civilize It Initiative
      • Social Concerns
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        • Poverty
        • Affordable Housing
        • Catholic Charities
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        • Hunger
        • Immigration
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  • The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a campaign inviting Catholics to model civility and love for neighbor throughout the year. Civilize It: Dignity Beyond the Debate will ask Catholics to pledge civility, clarity, and compassion in their families, communities, and parishes, and call on others to do so as well. Find out more information and resources to share with your community at CivilizeIt.org.
     

    Civil Dialogue: A response to Jesus’ call to love our neighbor

    Take the Pledge

  • Make Me an Instrument of Your Peace: 
    A Prayer for Civility

    Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
    Where uncivil words prevail, show me how to model love.
    Help me remember the God-given dignity of all and invite others to do the same.
    Show me how to build bridges and not walls and see first what unites us rather than how we diverge.
    Let me seek to understand before asking to be understood.
    Give me a listening heart filled with empathy and compassion.
    May I be clear in sharing my own position and respectful and civil in describing those of others.
    Let me never tolerate hateful ideas.
    May I invite all to charity and love.
    Lord, help me to imitate your compassion and mercy.
    Make me an instrument of your peace.

New Jersey Catholic Conference

Founded in 1949, the New Jersey Catholic Conference (NJCC) represents the Catholic Bishops of New Jersey on matters of public policy and serves as a liaison to governmental agencies and institutions and coordinates communications and activities between the Bishops and secular agencies. Learn More.

Archdiocese of Newark
Diocese of Trenton
Diocese of Camden
Diocese of Paterson
Diocese of Metuchen
Byzantine Catholic Eparchy of Passaic
Eparchy of Our Lady of Deliverance of Newark (Syrian)
New Jersey Catholic Conference
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Trenton, NJ 08608
Phone: 609-989-1120
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