The institute’s award-winning book series Enacting Catholic Social Tradition, published by Liturgical Press, is dedicated to the application of CST to real-world problems and issues. Written for both academics and pastoral practitioners who want to draw on and learn more about the rich resources of CST for the practical work of justice, the series aims to strengthen the capacity of the church to respond to the demands of the gospel. To date, the series has published volumes on financial decision-making, technology, and homelessness. Learn more.

The CST Conference brings scholars and practitioners from around the world to the campus of Notre Dame to work together to understand and apply CST to societal challenges. Hosted biennially since 2011, each conference takes its theme from seminal CST texts. The 2025 CST conference, Signs of the Times—Interdisciplinary Responses to Religious Nationalism, remembered the 60th anniversary of two significant Vatican II texts, Gaudium et spes and Dignitatis humanae. Learn more.

Building on Notre Dame Global’s international infrastructure, the Global Catholic Social Tradition Network systematically explores ways to apply CST to concrete social problems that communities face around the world, then shares that teaching with practitioners who can implement it. In 2025, the institute joined the International Research Center for Social and Ethical Issues to organize a conference on CST and democracy in Salzburg, Austria, through the Global CST Network. Learn more.

Engaging the rise of forced displacement around the world and inspired by Pope Francis’s exhortation to create a “culture of encounter,” the institute hosts the series Encounter: Conversations on Catholic Social Tradition during the spring semester. Organized by Suzanne Mulligan, professor of the practice and codirector of the CST minor, the series has featured distinguished CST scholars Anna Rowlands, Marcus Mescher, and Victor Carmona. Learn more.