Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities

The Life - In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day, celebrated April 22, 1970, our panelists shared many of the strategies and concrete steps their congregations are using to promote sustainability, preserve a healthy environment and combat climate change

A Place to Call Home - "Homelessness in all its forms, including family homelessness, has been left behind in the global debate," Daughter of Wisdom Sr. Jean Quinn told the opening session at the U.N. this week.

Mercy Sr. Mary Scullion, co-founder and executive director of Project HOME, an organization that helps the homeless in Philadelphia, was one of the many guests who attended the Feb. 4 State of the Union, which she hoped would draw attention to homelessness and inspire federal aid to alleviate it.

The St. Vincent de Paul Children Rehabilitation Center, run by the Sisters of St. Vincent de Paul of Lendelede, often treats children who have been abandoned by their parents because of their disabilities.

For years, Dominican Sr. Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, has said it's a scandal that millions of American families are struggling to find a stable place to live.

The sisters ministering in a community with generational poverty and some of the most challenging employment and health care statistics in the nation make an important statement about the church and women religious through their presence.

There is a new wave of social pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Antequera, Oaxaca, where food sovereignty and community ecological empowerment is taking place through a new Social Pastoral School. About 34 parishes have organized new social pastoral groups or reactivated or reorganized old ones, and 100 people have been through the school's first course.