Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award 2008 - Discussion Questions
About the Cardinal Bernardin New Leadership Award
View short videos about 2008 awardee Stephanie Garza
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Discussion Questions for Use with Stephanie Garza Videos
1) How is Stephanie living out her faith through her work with parents in the immigrant community?
2) How does Stephanie’s work help you to understand the mission and purpose of CCHD?
3) In Economic Justice for All, the bishops of the United States declared, "We believe that an effective way to attack poverty is through programs that are small in scale, locally based, and oriented toward empowering the poor." (200)
a) What is empowerment?
b) How is empowerment as a solution to poverty different than charity?
c) How does Stephanie’s work illustrate empowerment? What is the impact on the parents she works with?
4) How do immigration raids and detentions affect families? How does Stephanie’s work, both in schools and with immigration issues, strengthen families?
5) Many communities are currently divided over issues related to immigrants. How can the values of our faith help guide our perspective on immigration? You may want to consider the following themes from Scripture and Catholic social teaching:
a) the dignity of every human person
b) the commandment to love God and others
c) family as the most basic institution of society
d) the inherent rights of persons to fulfill basic needs
e) the call to care for the poor and vulnerable among us