With a wide array of authors and articles, this book assesses the meaning of globalization and the capacity of Catholic social thought to understand, reform, and guide it. Bill Ryan sj and John Coleman sj…

We believe, as many do now, that spirituality, social justice and ecology should be integrated into a holistic approach or vision. Thus far, we tend to relate ecology to spirituality and/or social justice to ecology…

Bill Ryan's life story is a lens through which we can view the tensions and accomplishments of the past fifty turbulent years of Church history. From humble origins in the Ottawa Valley, Ryan attended Harvard…

The Lab, The Temple and the Market: Reflections at the Intersection of Science, Religion and Development meshes a discussion of development issues and processes with four different systems of religious belief: Hinduism, Christianity, Islam and the…

Security, sustainability, and stability often depend on a system of values that has taken centuries to develop within a specific society. Current development strategies, however, tend to ignore, often underestimate, and sometimes undermine cultural values…

World Faiths and the New World Order: A Muslim-Christian-Jewish Search Begins comprises the texts of papers prepared for the Interreligious Peace Colloquium, held in Lisbon in 1977. The theme of the colloquium was "The Changing…