Economic Justice for All: Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy

by Catholic Church and United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

Book Overview

This tenth anniversary edition of the landmark pastoral letter includes both A Decade After Economic Justice for All and A Catholic Framework for Economic Life.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1574551353
• ISBN13: 9781574551358
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

TWENTY YEARS LATER THIS THEOLOGICAL TEXT IS MORE NEEDED THAN EVER

This prophetic warning written in the Reagan/Papa Bush days of economic disparities in which the rich grew immensely richer is more relevant now in our present time of extreme crisis in which our national government, after claiming responsibility, leaves our elderly and infirm out in a hurricane to drown, and kills an estimated million Iraqis for oil. Instead of the self-deceiving smug books so popular to read by those who oughht to know better, get this and face the reality of our imminent downfall as a nation under the weight of our own excess, inequality and injustice, with no one else to blame but ourselves alone. Then read the Reverend Father John Dear's Jesus the Rebel for our salvation as a nation and as a Faith. This book directly and courageously condemns the kind of all-consuming corporate greed which leaves the majority of us without basic human services nor a chance for economic advancement nor the American dream, and yet which now eats out the heart and soul and treasure and future credit of our nation. THis book spoke prophetically a generation ago, which is why the powers and dominions have so entirely discredited our Church as a moral authority and bankrupted her through punitive court cases