Contents: A feminist appraisal of Catholic social thought / Kristin A. Heyer ; 2. Restorative justice and Catholic social thought: challenges as opportunities for society, church, and academy / Kurt M. Denk ; 3. From mutilation to donation: revising moral doctrine, Catholic theology, organ transplantation and social policy / Albert R. Jonsen ; 4. Is it ethical to be Catholic? queer perspectives / James Alison ; 5. Whose Holy Grail? justice and health care in the age of genetics / Maura Ryan ; 6. For God and country: patriotism and religious identity today / Thomas Massaro ; 7. Flannery O'Connor's vision of faith, church and modern consciousness / George H. Niederauer ; 8. Jesuit hybrids, Catholic modernities, futural pasts / Stephen Schloesser ; 9. Foundations for a national ethical discussion about Iraq / Robert W. McElroy ; 10. Integral human development: the challenge of Caritas in veritate / James Stormes.

For the City & the World: Conversations in Catholic Studies and Social Thought

James, Alison

Thomas Massaro

Stephen Schloesser, S.J

James Stormes, SJ

Kristin Heyer

Kurt Denk, SJ

Albert Jonsen

Maura Ryan

George Niederauer

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Bishop Robert W. McElroy published "A Church for the Poor" in America Magazine on Oct. 21, 2013. Following conversations with colleagues at Santa Clara University, the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, and Faith in Public Life, the Lane Center pulled together a roundtable of scholars, activists, and religious leaders to meet with Bishop McElroy and discuss how best to support his challenge, engage the Catholic intellectual tradition, and transform the public political conversation across the western United States and the rest of the country. On April 4, 2014, 20 participants, including Bishop McElroy and the authors in this volume, met on the campus of the University of San Francisco for a daylong gathering centered on the issue of poverty and the task of getting poverty back on the political agenda for the American Catholic Church. This volume combines the voices of theologians and activists, ministers and ethicists. Such collaboration, we believe, is crucial for taking on the challenge initiated by Pope Francis and contextualized in the U.S. by Bishop McElroy because becoming the church of the poor and for the poor necessitates multiple levels of transformation-political, moral, theological, and personal.

Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism in the United States: The Challenge of Becoming a Church for the Poor

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Drawing on Jesuit values as well as perspectives from disciplines across the humanities and sciences, this volume is oriented toward care for the people, communities, and ecosystems that make up our common home. Caring for our planetary home means responding to the multifaceted challenges of the current historical moment. As unprecedented changes are happening around the planet, the climate emergency poses an existential threat to humankind and to all life on Earth. This is a problem of survival and sustainability, but it is also more than that. It raises questions about justice. Ecological destruction cannot be adequately understood without addressing the systemic inequalities of social systems, and likewise, those inequalities cannot be understood apart from their ecological context. Engaging with a wide range of topics, from Pope Francis to Zen Buddhism, from the Global North to the Global South, from personal practice to systemic change, Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate provides tools for thinking through these complex issues and facilitating the emergence of healthy, convivial, contemplative, and just ways of being in the world.

Integrating Ecology and Justice in a Changing Climate

Mickey, Sam

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