The BDRT team studies, discusses and discerns ways to overcome racism and racial injustice, while helping the parish become an even more welcoming, inclusive and multi-cultural community of faith.

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.

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.

The Center for Service and Social Action believes that, through service, we can deepen our understanding of and be a conduit for positive change within our local, national, and international community.

The Center for Service and Social Action seeks to develop service opportunities which build relationships, enhance learning, encourage active citizenship, and support the John Carroll University mission to "inspire individuals to excel in learning, leadership, and service in the region and in the world." We offer a variety of programs to meet the needs of our community partners and the interests of our service participants, including Service Learning, Voluntary Service, Service Projects and Events, and service-based Immersion Experiences.

The CRC Saturday Programs offers our students a new opportunity to be with adults and children with cognitive and physical disabilities.  Cincinnati Recreation Commission’s Therapeutic Division offers three activities for our students to volunteer; these include:  the Adaptive Bowling program at Brentwood Bowl, the BlazeSports Wheelchair Football program at Pleasant Ridge Community Center, and the Youth Empowerment Social (YES) at College Hill Community Center.  Each program mentioned above takes place on Saturdays throughout the month.  Student groups rotate for a once to twice a month experience.

The Edward B. Brueggeman center for dialogue at Xavier University is dedicated to providing space and opportunity for dialogue about the critical issues of our age. It is founded upon the belief that the paths that lead to solutions to our most serious problems will emerge out of dialogue. Interreligious dialogue remains the distinguishing characteristic and integrating factor but in order to truly address the critical issues, the conversation must also include the other academic disciplines, representatives from the business community, government and civic society. The work of the center includes conferences, research and publications, and interfaith and inter-religious activities as well as exploring new forms of collaborative engagement on issues of religious, social and cultural diversity, social and economic justice, ecological sustainability, and local and global responsibility.

focuses on education and action to promote trade practices that support human dignity, economic justice and international solidarity. Here on campus the club works to encourage the use of fair trade coffee and other products.

J.U.S.T.I.C.E. (Jesuit University Students Together in Concerned Empowerment), is a student organization concerned with promoting social justice and the ideals of St. Ignatius on campus and throughout the world. Following the Ignatian values of Magis and Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, JUSTICE strives to achieve sustaining social change through its experiences with and for others.

Pax Christi is an international network that joins faith, peace studies and a vision of a just and loving world.

Peace and Justice Programs aims to promote personal and social transformation. Towards the end of achieving these two objectives our work begins through the promotion of relationships. Through facilitating service, education and immersion experiences, we aim to actively engage the Xavier community in the lives of local, national and international communities. As students, faculty and staff get caught up in the lives of our local and global neighbors, in particular the lives of those individuals and communities who reside on our world’s social, economic and political margins, our programs foment and inform the desire and imperative to respond. In order to promote effective responses (and responders) we promote social analysis.

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.  

The St. Xavier Community Action Program (After School C.A.P.) was started in 1965 when Peter Cassady, as Sodality Prefect, said that his goal was to have every student become socially involved. Since that time we have had the pleasure of working with thousands of children and adults in our surrounding communities.  Students who choose to become involved in C.A.P. volunteer in a variety of activities, including tutoring, serving at a soup kitchen, working with the elderly, visiting hospital patients, mentoring children, and other options.  The St. Xavier Community Service Program has placed a special emphasis on our relationship with the Winton Hills community, so many of our C.A.P. activities are held in this neighborhood.

These programs are instrumental in providing the type of transformative experience that is the hallmark of Jesuit education.  In developing relationships with people different from themselves, students begin to appreciate the struggles of the poor and the disenfranchised.  These experiences call students from their comfort zones and challenge them to examine their lives in terms of Christian justice.  As a result, students begin to acknowledge their many blessings.

The Society of St. Vincent de Paul is a non-profit organization assisting the poor, lonely and forgotten to bridge the spiritual, emotional and financial gaps in their lives. St Xavier and Cathedral Conference activities are confined to those neighbors in Over-the Rhine, West End and Downtown area. Volunteers visit, access and evaluate the situation of the individuals who have requested a need prior to providing assistance. Contact the church office if you would like to volunteer.

Students are encouraged and supported in their efforts to meaningfully contribute to society and to make a difference by helping others through on-campus and community-based service.  There are many different forms of service opportunities available to students including one-time service, weekly service, and immersion-based service.  The Office of Student Involvement is a central location providing support for student service engagement and service resource materials.

Service Justice Clubs include:  Alternative Breaks Club, Earthbread, Proponents for Parents, Pro-life, STAND XU.

Following a consistent ethic of life, the club seeks to engage the community in dialogue and action concerning those society deems less valuable. Students for Life speaks out on behalf of the unborn, poor, handicapped, elderly, and the condemned through service, education, and an engaging Life Week.

Parishioners participate in this congregational coalition in the Greater Cincinnati (Ohio) area, witnessing to faith and justice through public action and grassroots and lower-income faith-based leadership development on issues of economic and racial justice.

Focusing on peace issues in Latin America, VOS commits itself to be a voice for the unheard. By uniting in solidarity with the many victims of injustice, VOS offers educational, cultural, and service experiences celebrating and supporting the people of this region.