Each year, the Bellarmine forum allows us as an intellectual community to engage one another and the wider public, in and beyond Los Angeles, in serious and sustained conversation about the profound questions of human existence.    The Forum promotes the mission of Loyola Marymount University as a Catholic university grounded in the liberal arts and committed to academic excellence and transformative education.

Integrates faith, action and justice spirituality for the parish, promotes and coordinates parish social justice efforts, outreach ministries, and monthly outreach collections and small grants.

The Catholicism and Civic Renewal project, under the direction of John Farina, asks what role Catholicism can play in the process of American civic renewal. How do Catholics bring their theological and spiritual resources into the social and political sphere, in a way that can strengthen our common life as a nation? The project develops its answer by combining historical, constitutional, and political analysis with systematic theological reflection. A series of seminars, conferences, discussion groups, articles, and books will explore how religious faith is shaping current efforts to renew society.

The Center promotes and assists the university in fulfilling its social responsibilities as Chicago's Jesuit University for being a voice of reason, compassion and justice in Society.

The Education for Justice Project promotes outreach and education throughout the U.S. on Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and social justice issues. The Project provides resource materials, presentations, training and consultations to Catholic high schools and colleges, to diocesan offices and groups, to parishes, small faith communities, and to a variety of networks and organizations.

Volunteers age 50 and older engage in social service ministry with the poor 20 hours per week.

Since 1998, the Institute on the Common Good at Regis University has dedicated itself to programs aimed at changing the world one dialogue at a time, operating under the simple theory that through dialogue and trust building, major social change can occur. The Institute is unique in that it actively partners with groups engaged in community life. ICG asserts the dignity and social nature of the human person. Therefore, every voice is welcome around our table.

The Intercommunity Peace & Justice Center promotes just structures in the church and in the world. IPJC is sponsored by sixteen religious communities and collaborates with Catholic, ecumenical, interfaith and other organizations in carrying out this mission. 

The Lane Center engages and develops Catholic social thought for the Church, the city and the world with an emphasis on social concerns. The Center sponsors academic programs, research and public praxis that promote and engage Catholic social thought and contemporary issues in order to fashion a more just and humane world.

The Pedro Arrupe Center for Business Ethics was founded in 2005 as an intellectual resource for business ethics. The mission of the Arrupe Center is to assure that students are equipped to engage in careful, sustained, and critical reflection on ethical issues and are prepared to use that reflection in their business decision making.

The Poverty and Solidarity program seeks enhance student learning about poverty through:

•  Development of an interdisciplinary course and summer internship sequence for students seeking a deeper understanding of poverty
•  Creation of interdisciplinary and discipline-based courses that will embed the study of poverty throughout the curriculum
•  Establishment of a public lecture series to educate both the university and Greater Cleveland communities on poverty

The Program also hosts a "Poverty and Solidarity Faculty Learning Community" to engage faculty from throughout various disciplines in dialogue and focused study of  local, national, and global poverty leading to the development of courses on poverty or modification of existing courses to include a component on poverty.  

Courses incorporate experiential assignments that ground student learning in the context and content of what they encounter in particular community settings. These courses aim to deepen student understanding of issues such as race, class, gender, violence, poverty and justice. The Center for Service Learning provides faculty with community resources, with guest speakers for in-class discussions or field trips, and with course planning and facilitation support.

CARA is a national, non-profit, Georgetown University affiliated research center that conducts social scientific studies about the Catholic Church. Founded in 1964, CARA has three major dimensions to its mission: to increase the Church's self understanding, to serve the applied research needs of Church decision-makers, to advance scholarly research on religion, particularly Catholicism.

The Global Women's Project approaches questions of women's human rights and equity through a long tradition of research, theological reflection, advocacy, outreach, popular education and coalition building.

The Center, named after the University's patron saint, promotes critical and committed analysis of the Catholic tradition. Its thought-provoking programs solicit discussion of all aspects of Catholicism, including literature, history, fine arts, philosophy, theology and the natural and social sciences.

The Thomas More Center encourages faculty and student research and study through a minor program in Catholic Studies for undergraduates and a research grant program for Rockhurst faculty. Additionally, the Center provides continuing education opportunities and outreach programs to the community-at-large.

Established in the spring of 2000, the Center has already sponsored a course whose lectures have been published by the Rockhurst University Press — Catholicism at the Millennium: The Church of Tradition in Transition .

Urban Partners is based on the concept of partnerships and collaborations with organizations working on social justice issues. It seeks to link university resources, faculty, staff and students to assist as a resource to these community organizations and leaders. This has included service on boards, volunteer service, research and analysis, mentoring and consulting, training and facilitation, speaking out, organizing and demonstrating.