Introduction to modern Catholicism / Russell Hittinger
Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903)
Commentary / Russell Hittinger
Original source materials
A twofold pedagogy
Law and liberty
Plural societies
Church and civil authority
Political "forms"
Belgium, France, and the United States
The rule of Christ and Christian virtue
Jacques Maritain (1882-1973)
Commentary / Patrick McKinley Brennan
Original source materials
Inaugural address to the second international conference of UNESCO
Redeeming the time
Man and the state
Church and state
God and the permission of evil
Natural law and moral law
The rights of man and natural law
Scholasticism and politics
Moral philosophy
John Courtney Murray, S.J. (1904-1967)
Commentary / Angela C. Carmella
Original source materials
On natural law
On america
On social conversation
On the public consensus
On historical consciousness
On the distinction between law and morality
On the limited efficacy of censorship statutes
Unity
On the church-state distinction
On the first amendment religion clauses
On coercion of conscience
On the scope of the right to religious freedom
On the human right to religious freedom
On the church's teachings on religious freedom
On Leo XIII
On the Vatican II declaration of religious freedom
Freedom and the secularity of the state
On the difficulties of Vatican II
On the church's tardy recognition of religious freedom
On John XXIII
Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)
Commentary / Leslie Griffin
Original source materials
Announcement of ecumenical council
Opening address to the council
Gustavo Guti & Edotirrez (b. 1928)
Commentary / Paul E. Sigmund
Original source materials
Notes for a theology of liberation
A theology of liberation : history, politics, and salvation
The power of the poor in history
Theology and the social sciences
On Job, God-talk, and the suffering of the innocent
A theology of liberation, revised edition
Dorothy Day (1897-1980)
Commentary / David Gregory
Original source materials
The Catholic worker collection
Dividing the workers
Unionizing the unemployed
Reasons for child labor law
Vigilantes mob sharecroppers' mass meeting
The Catholic worker and labor
Catholics in unions
The Catholic worker : 25th anniversary issue
Pope John Paul II (1920-2005)
Commentary / Robert P. George and Gerard V. Bradley
Original source materials
"Dominus Jesus" : declaration on the unicity and salvific university of Jesus Christ and the church
Instruction on certain aspects of the "theology of liberation"
Instruction on Christian freedom and liberation
Sollicitudo rei socialis (on social concern)
Encylical letter : centesimus annus
Evangelium vitae (the Gospel of life).
The teachings of modern Roman Catholicism on law, politics, and human nature. ISBN 9780231142618. Published by Columbia University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.