In this groundbreaking book, one of the nation's most influential Roman Catholic laymen asserts that the Church in the United States must embrace profound transformation or face irreversible decline.

In brief, this is an analysis of conservative and liberal plans to do good for the nation, evaluated in light of the Bible and common sense.

Understanding World Religions studies major worldviews in relation to justice and peace: Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Christian, Marxist, and Native American.

Was life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out? Alexander Murray takes the last question first, as a key to the testing of all other assumptions.

Shares conversations between the future pope and a rabbi and biophysicist on such religious and social issues as God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and globalization.

A lively investigation of the Catholic Church and its controversial social mission in the developing world

In this revised edition of a longtime bestseller, lawyer, activist and Jesuit priest Fred Kammer ushers Catholics into the twenty-first century as he confronts the challenge of human poverty and injustice in the context of our consumer ...

For over a decade Living Justice has introduced readers to Catholic social teaching. The second classroom edition has been revised and updated throughout to better meet the needs of students today.

A portrait of the Nobel Peace Prize recipient beginning with her childhood. Includes her decision to devote herself to the poor, her methods of serving others, and her thoughts on human issues.

This paperbook collection of his prose writings reveals the extent to which Thomas Merton moved from the other-worldly devotion of his earlier work to a direct, deeply engaged, often militant concern with the critical situation of man in ...