The Convention for the Common Good, a national gathering of community leaders dedicated to social justice, will take place July 11-13 in Philadelphia, PA at the Sheraton Philadelphia City Center Hotel. The Convention, inspired by Catholic Social Teaching, is being convened by Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and NETWORK, the National Catholic Social Justice Lobby, and sponsored by the Center of Concern and 18 other Catholic organizations.

In the April 2008 edition of Resolutions to Action, a publication of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious global Concerns Committee, Sr. Amata Miller, IHM, sums up key questions on economic justice for candidates for office in the 2008 election. the article is entitled "US Impact on Global Economic Justice Through the Lens of Catholic Social Teaching." Previous issues of Resolutions to Action are available on the LCWR website.