Catholic Social Justice

Philomena Cullen is the Social Policy Co-ordinator of Caritas-Social Action in England and Wales, UK. Trained in theology, philosophy and social studies, she is also a qualified social worker. She was educated at New College, Oxford University and at Durham University, UK. Bernard Hoose lectures in Christian Ethics at Heythrop College, University of London, UK. His publications include Proportionalism: The American Debate and its European Roots, (Georgetown University Press) 1987, Received Wisdom? Reviewing the Role of Tradition in Christian Ethics (Geoffrey Chapman, 1994). He is editor of Christian Ethics: An Introduction (Cassell, 1998), Authority in the Roman Catholic Church (Ashgate, 2002) and Authority in Roman Catholicism (Matthew James, 2002). He presently serves on the Theology Commission of Caritas-Social Action. Gerard Mannion is Associate Professor in Theology and Religious Studies at Liverpool Hope University, UK. Previously, he was Senior Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Ecclesiology and Ethics at Trinity & All Saints College, University of Leeds, UK, and also taught Philosophy, Doctrine and Ethics at Westminster College, Oxford, UK. He is presently a committee member of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain, member of the American Academy of Religion and was a 2004 Coolidge Fellow at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, USA.

"The book is clearly structured, and covers a great deal of ground ... There are articles on spirituality; a splendid piece by Duncan Forrester on a comparison of Protestant thought; and a critical piece by one of the well-known Asian liberation theologians, Tissa Balasuriya, on Pope Benedict's Deus Caritas Est." - Church Times

• Preface: Duncan Maclaren, Secretary General of Caritas Internationalis; Foreword: Bishop Christopher Budd, Plymouth Diocese; Introduction: Caritas in Theory and Practice; Part I: Theological Explorations in Social Justice and Social Spirituality; 1. Spirituality and Morality in a Social Context - Bernard Hoose; 2. Christian Social Spirituality: A Global Perspectives - Peter C Phan; 3. Benedict XVI's Deus Caritas Est and Social Action - Tissa Balasuriya; 4. Searching for the Faith to do Justice - Judith A Merkle; 5. Working and Being: Social Justice and a Theology for Workers - Gerard Mannion; 6. Embracing Leisure - Jayne Hoose; 7. Social Justice in Protestant Thought - Duncan B Forrester; Part II: The Practice of Social Spirituality; 1. The Nature of the Catholic Advocate - Sir Stephen Wall; 2. Hearing the Cry of the Poor - John Battle MP; 3. Ethic, Business and Managers - Hans Kung,; 4. Rights of the Child - Jim Richards; 5. Social Justice and the Open Family - Philomena Cullen; 6. The Key is Empathy - Shelia Cassidy,; 7. Discerning the Signs of Our Times: Who Owns Catholic Social Teaching and Who Should Own Up to It?- Noel Timms.