The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 drastically changed the delivery of social services in the US. This title uses Catholic social teaching as a lens through which to view contemporary American welfare policies, citing the tradition's emphasis on serving the needy - including a preferential option for the poor - and the common good.
Theology of the Internet and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination
This book provides a theological account of the internet from a Catholic perspective. Katherine G. Schmidt engages digital culture by providing a context for media and mediation within the Catholic tradition, specifically focusing on the ecclesiology and sacramentality of the church.
Surveys the moral values of the Catholic tradition and applies them to contemporary issues. This title addresses such topics as scriptural sources, reverence for human life, sexuality and intimacy, family responsibilities, economics, and Catholic higher education.
Economics is imbued with individualistic values that result in an economy marked by extreme inequality that in turn restricts social mobility and further marginalizes the poor. Catholic social thought provides the moral values required to help make economics capable of building an economy that serves all, rich and poor alike.
Catholic institutions of higher learning are at a crossroads: How can they remain true to their roots while recognizing that many of their administrations, faculties, and student bodies have little connection with the tradition? This book explores what constitutes the Catholic identity of Catholic colleges and universities.
This study of the parables of Jesus grasps the character and person of the Jesus of history. Readers will experience him as a flesh and blood person intimately immersed in and engaged with his world and the people of his world.
Why do a third of the people raised Catholic in the United States no longer worship as Catholics? Why has the Catholic Church lost a credible teaching voice for many young people? Does the fault lie entirely with those individuals and with the secular culture? In Why the Catholic Church Must Change, Margaret Nutting Ralph first affirms that ......
This first-ever interdisciplinary study of the woman as prophet shows that, in these troubling times, ordinary women-especially Christian women-need to function as prophets by proclaiming, in word and deed, the indispensability of lovingly seeking the welfare of others.
