In this volume, the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition at the University of San Francisco has compiled essays from educators across the Jesuit network offering testimonies, best practices, and methods on how we ought to respond to the realities of global migration with courage, compassion, and coaction.
The essays in this volume invite the reader, in different ways, to consider Catholic identity not only in terms of "who we are?" but "what are we for?" To be sure, identity and mission are deeply interconnected but offer different starting points for reflection and formation. At the heart of those questions is the challenge of building the common good within the Church and for the world.
In April 2017, the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought sponsored a roundtable discussion on race and incarceration. The resulting essays lifted the role of spirituality and creative expression as essential to the survival and transformation of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated people. This book is an expression and expansion of that conversation.
This volume combines the voices of theologians and activists, ministers and ethicists, who discuss the challenge initiated by Pope Francis, and contextualized in the U.S. by Bishop Robert W. McElroy, in becoming a church of the poor -- a change which necessitates multiple levels of transformation, political, moral, theological, and personal.