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We continually face economic choices as local and immediate as where to buy food and as global and longerm as how much oil and natural gas we can consume.
A book to guide us each day in choices we make that will have an impact on the environment and our future. Choices we make each day, whether they be local choices about where to buy food, or choices on a much grander scale such as how much oil and coal our nations consume, have a broad and far-reaching impact with long-term implications.
This eight-week, small-group resource on economic stewardship explores ongoing questions about how one spends limited human, natural, and monetary resources. Following an introductory session, groups learn about the seven core themes of Catholic social teaching: dignity of the human person, community and the common good, rights and responsibilities, preferential option for the Poor, Dignity of Work, Solidarity, and Subsidiarity.
Groups are then taught how to apply Catholic moral principles to the pressing economic decisions of their households, local communities, nation, and world. Between meetings, group members are encouraged to take small steps toward better stewardship such as studying family consumption patterns, evaluating household budgets against Catholic values, improving one's work environment, or helping someone unemployed find a job. This guide is ideal for parish faith-sharing and social outreach groups, as well as families, schools, and campus ministry programs.
CHARLES K WILBER is the emeritus professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Joan B Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Wilber has written or edited over a dozen books and published numerous articles, including several in National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, Preach and also in America the journal.
'Catholics Spending and Acting Justly offers a clear but challenging "see, judge and act" process for small groups to use in response to the economic challenges of everyday life. If taken seriously, this small booklet could change our lives, our communities and our world'.
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A book to guide us each day in choices we make that will have an impact on the environment and our future. Choices we make each day, whether they be local choices about where to buy food, or choices on a much grander scale such as how much oil and coal our nations consume, have a broad and far-reaching impact with long-term implications.
This eight-week, small-group resource on economic stewardship explores ongoing questions about how one spends limited human, natural, and monetary resources. Following an introductory session, groups learn about the seven core themes of Catholic social teaching: dignity of the human person, community and the common good, rights and responsibilities, preferential option for the Poor, Dignity of Work, Solidarity, and Subsidiarity.
Groups are then taught how to apply Catholic moral principles to the pressing economic decisions of their households, local communities, nation, and world. Between meetings, group members are encouraged to take small steps toward better stewardship such as studying family consumption patterns, evaluating household budgets against Catholic values, improving one's work environment, or helping someone unemployed find a job. This guide is ideal for parish faith-sharing and social outreach groups, as well as families, schools, and campus ministry programs.
CHARLES K WILBER is the emeritus professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame and a fellow of the Joan B Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Wilber has written or edited over a dozen books and published numerous articles, including several in National Catholic Reporter, Commonweal, Preach and also in America the journal.
'Catholics Spending and Acting Justly offers a clear but challenging "see, judge and act" process for small groups to use in response to the economic challenges of everyday life. If taken seriously, this small booklet could change our lives, our communities and our world'.
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