The aim of our advocacy trips is to learn about injustice in its' various forms, explore their root causes and then take action.  Students who participate in one of our advocacy trips will be challenged to not only learn about the injustice but to become an advocate for justice. Trips offered include: the Birmingham/SOA Protest/Ignatian Family Teach-in, the March for Life Trip, Washington, D.C., the Ignatian Family Spring Teach-In on Environmental Justice and Sustainability, and a visit to  the Ignatius Jesuit Centre of Guelph, Canada.

Works with a variety of broader programs, including: Bread for the World, Catholic Relief Services, the Ignatian Solidarity Network, the Jesuit Refugee Service, and NETWORK, a national Catholic social justice lobby.

Alternative Spring Break (ASB) is a program sponsored by University Ministry that seeks to educate student volunteers about specific social issues by immersing them in diverse cultures and environments across the country to engage in service-oriented learning. Participating offers a chance to put into action the charisms of the Religious Sisters of Mercy and the Society of Jesus, the sponsors of the University. The participants travel together and live in a community atmosphere, sharing chores, meals and reflection opportunities. As everyone has a different persepctive, studnts learn to respect the dignity of each other and of those they serve Over the past 13 years, students have helped in many parts of the USA: Michigan, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Missouri, and even South Dakota.

Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (“To the Greater Glory of God”): Alternative Means of Discovering Grace.

Our service immersion program offers rising seniors an opportunity to put their faith into action in a very challenging and real way. They are about responding to the Gospel call to serve those in need, while questioning the reasons behind why people are in need. While each immersion has its own unique slant, they all encourage participants to learn about living in solidarity with people and experiencing a different way of living, often without many material possessions.

The Arrupe Club was established over 15 years ago with the purpose of having students serve at the Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen. Several years ago the club started to cook meals at the Ronald McDonald house on Sunday evenings. It now serves at the Catholic Worker Soup Kitchen twice a month and Ronald McDonald House twice a month during the school year.

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.

Best Buddies is an organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment. 

Georgetown Prep's current chapter of Best Buddies has been active since the fall of 2005.

Mentor program

Students are paired with disadvantaged, fatherless boys from area boys/girls clubs and participate in various recreational activities, usually on Saturday afternoons. Carpools are arranged.

Junior Big Brothers is open only to juniors and seniors who have access to a car. Students are paired with boys ages 5-10 and participate in various recreational activities, usually on Saturday afternoons.

Community service sites include clinics, hospitals, schools, youth centers, service centers and homes for the physically and developmentally disabled, retirement facilities, therapeutic riding and youth sports programs, nursing home, and homes for unwed mothers. By the end of any semester, Brebeuf Jesuit students will have give more than 900 hours of service to the community.

Campus Ministry is dedicated to educating and challenging the Canisius community on a variety of justice issues. We offer a variety of ways to become engaged in the pursuit of justice: social justice movie nights, justice newsletter, Ignatian Family Teach-ins, the annual Sleep-out in the Quad, For Your Consideration weekly emails, tabling on various peace and justice issues, and various speakers and trips.

Our Mission

Composed of and directed by student volunteers, the Loyola University Community Action Program (LUCAP) is a campus organization having three primary goals, the first being to provide and direct volunteers in service-oriented activity within the community and the university, the second being to inform and promote involvement in the area of social justice, and the third being to aid in the volunteers' social and spiritual growth through their involvement in service and care-giving activities.

Who We Are

LUCAP offers over a dozen great ways to become actively involved in advocacy and service projects which help the Loyola, New Orleans, and Global communities. This active community is student-directed, and LUCAP volunteers work with a variety of issues in different ways, including feeding the homeless, tutoring learners of all ages, spending time with the elderly, attending protests, rebuilding the Gulf Coast, and sponsoring speakers and events for social justice. Participation in our programs provides a chance to make a real difference while attending Loyola.

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 for Community Service and Justice specializes in developing and offering service programs which are also educational.organizes and implements social justice and service programs on campus. Offerings include adult literacy courses, youth tutoring, AIDS work, Beans and Bread, Garden Harvest, health care and hospital programs, housing/homeless/food programs, immersion experiences, care for senior citizens, and summer service opportunities.

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 center is a cross-disciplinary forum for students, scholars, policy makers and religious leaders, to converse and reflect on the many issues where religion intersects with civic life.  The center houses the Jesuit Migration Network, the Jesuit Humanitarian Action Network and the Faith Meets Politics Series where politicians and students of various political background discuss issues in a non-argumentative format.

The Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture sponsors and supports programming that explores basic human questions of meaning, morality, and mutual obligation. Following the principle that faith and learning are partners in liberal education, the Center’s programs foster dialogue that respects differences, and provides a forum for intellectual exchange that is interreligious as well as interdisciplinary, intercultural, and international in scope. Most events are free and open to the public.

The mission of the Center for Service & Action is to educate and form men and women with and for others, especially with and for the disadvantaged and the oppressed. Through direct personal contact between students and the marginalized in service experiences, we foster a solidarity with the poor that will lead to intellectual inquiry, moral reflection and social action.