Center for Advocacy and Outreach

We welcome you to Columban mission in a variety of ways, including internships, volunteerism and exposure trips.

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Be transformed by living with and serving people and communities who are most vulnerable to social, economic and environmental injustices. Join us for five days, five months or a lifetime. Please contact Amy Woolam Echeverria for more information about any of our CCAO missions.

Issues

  • Economic Justice
  • Peace & Reconciliation

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    Mission Through Their Eyes: CCAO Blog

    CCAO WELCOMES SPRING INTERNS

    The new group of interns for the 2012 spring semester has begun their work. They will be serving at the Columban Center for Advocacy & Outreach (CCAO) from January until the beginning of May. Interns share in Columban mission of …

    I really take to heart the Catholic Social Teaching principle of “solidarity,” which states, “We are one human family whatever our national, racial, ethnic, economic, and ideological differences. We are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers, wherever they may be.” I …

    Catholic Social Teaching and US Immigration: A Challenge

    Much of what goes into the immigration process seems to go against Catholic teachings.  Instead of welcoming and loving our neighbors, we challenge them to prove their worth.  People from all over the world come to the United States in …

    Economic Justice and Gospel Social Values

    *The content of these blogs are the personal reflections of the author and do not represent official Columban positions or statements The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ publication no. 5-315 on “Themes from Catholic Social Teaching” tells us that, …