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Suggested Readings on Catholic Social Teaching
- Living Justice: Catholic Social Teaching in Action
by Thomas Massaro, SJ
- Responses to 101 Questions on Catholic Social Teaching
Kenneth R. Himes, OFM
- Spirituality of the Beatitudes
Michael H. Crosby, OFM, Revised January 2005
- Call to Conversion
Cloud of Witnesses
God's Politics
all by Jim Wallis, Founder of Sojourners
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- Living Peace
John Dear, SJ. Former director of the Fellowship for Reconciliation
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This treats the personal as well as public journey to a better world.
- The Road to Peace
Henri Nouwen, Edited by John Dear
A collection of essays by this great spiritual writer.
- Eight Spiritual Heroes, Their Search for God
Brennan Hill.
Mini biographies of Mahatma Ghandi, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Oscar Romero, Edith Stein, Daniel Berrigan, Mother Teresa.
- Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger
Ronald J. Sider
Good reading on distribution of wealth on a personal and systemic level.
- A Concise Guide to Catholic Social Teaching
Kevin E. McKenna
Books our Committee has read and discussed
- Notes From A Catastrophe
Elizabeth Kolbert
- The Long Loneliness
Dorothy Day
- No Future without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu
- Essential Writings
Pedro Arrupe
- Hope Against Darkness: The Transforming Vision of Saint
Francis in an Age of Anxiety
Richard Rohr
- Mountains Beyond Mountains
Tracy Kidder
- The Fragrance of Faith: The Enlightened Heart of Islam
Jamal Rahman
- Our Sacred Land
Kenize Mourad
- Palestine-Peace Not Apartheid
Jimmy Carter
- My Lord & My God: Engaging Catholics in Social Ministry
Jeffry Odell Korgen, Foreword by Jack Jezreel
- Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the
Poor
Gary N. Smith
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