Vision of Justice

Susan Crawford Sullivan is associate professor of sociology at the College of the Holy Cross.  She has also been a visiting assistant professor at Harvard Divinity School.  In addition to publishing numerous journal articles, she is the author of Living Faith:  Everyday Religion and Mothers in Poverty (University of Chicago Press, 2011), which won the 2012 Distinguished Book Award from both the American Sociological Association (sociology of religion section) and the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion. She is a member of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities Peace and Justice Advisory Committee.

“[A] collection of intellectually stimulating, historically rooted, and empirically grounded essays. . . . [They] address the challenge we all face: to make CST no longer the ‘best-kept secret.’”Kathleen Maas Weigert, PhD; Carolyn Farrell, BVM Professor of Women and Leadership; Assistant to the Provost for Social Justice Initiatives; Loyola University Chicago

• ContentsAcknowledgments   viiForeword   ixMichael Galligan-StierleIntroduction: Catholic Social Teaching and the College Campus   xiSusan Crawford Sullivan and Ron PagnuccoChapter 1: The United States’ Historical Engagement with Catholic Social Teaching   1David O’BrienChapter 2: Catholic Social Teaching in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition   17Thomas M. LandyChapter 3: The State and Civil Society in Catholic Social Teaching   29David L. ColemanChapter 4: Catholic Social Teaching, Poverty, and the Economy   53Linda Plitt Donaldson and Susan Crawford SullivanChapter 5: From Neighbor to Brother and Sister: Immigration in Catholic Social Teaching   75Daniel Groody, CSC, and Colleen CrossChapter 6: Care for Creation   95Bernard F. EvansChapter 7: Catholic Peacebuilding   113Gerard F. PowersChapter 8: Human Rights, Catholic Social Teaching, and the Liberal Rights Tradition   139Ron Pagnucco and Mark EnsalacoChapter 9: Solidarity: A Catholic Perspective   161Ron Pagnucco and Peter GichureChapter 10: Sharing the Vision of Justice   183Susan Crawford Sullivan and Ron PagnuccoAppendix 1: Catholic Higher Education and Catholic Social Teaching: A Vision Statement   193Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities, 2012Appendix 2: Catholic Social Teaching Documents: Papal Social Encyclicals and U.S. Bishops’ Pastorals   201List of Contributors   205