Here are some links to get you investing with some social responsibility.As You SowNews on socially responsible investingBusiness & Human Rights Resource CentreTracks both positive and negative impacts of more than 5,100 companies worldwide Christian Brothers Investment ServicesThe Forum for Sustainable and Responsible InvestmentResource-rich site with charts comparing SRI mutual funds perform

It’s the hidden tragedies that tell the real tale of our nation’s economic woes.Don’t tell me your sob stories,” some people will say when you bring up the various trials and tribulations of the poor in an effort to justify, say, extended unemployment benefits, broadened eligibility for food stamps or school lunches, Head Start or universal health care.

Armed with soil and seeds, Catholics in blighted cities are taking social justice into their own hands.In Camden, New Jersey a jumble of railroad tracks, freeways, and abandoned factories lace through the Waterfront South area on the Delaware River just across from Philadelphia.

The U.S. bishops issued their 1983 pastoral letter The Challenge of Peace without a total condemnation of nuclear arms but planned to revisit the issue after the Cold War. More than 25 years later, the question is still on the table.