CONTENTS

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction by Paul Adams

PART ONE  The Theory

by Michael Novak

DEFINITIONS, CONTEXT

  1  Social Justice Isn’t What You Think It Is

  2  Six Secular Uses of “Social Justice,”

  3  A Mirage?

  4  Friedrich Hayek, Practitioner of Social Justice

  5  Sixteen Principles of Catholic Social Thought: The Five Cs

  6  The Five Rs

  7  The Six Ss

THE POPES ON SOCIAL JUSTICE

  8  Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum

  9  Forty Years Later: Pius XI

10  American Realities and Catholic Social Thought

11  Centesimus Annus: Capitalism, No and Yes

12  Benedict XVI and Caritas in Veritate

13  Pope Francis on Unreformed Capitalism

FURTHER CHALLENGES

14  A New Theological Specialty: The Scout

15  Needed: A Sharper Sense of Sin

PART TWO  In Practice

by Paul Adams

Introduction Getting beyond Dichotomies

16  Conscience and Social Justice

17  Marriage as a Social Justice Issue

18  Practicing Social Justice

19  From Charity to Justice?

20  Charity Needs Caritas—So Does Social Justice

Epilogue Social Justice: In the Vast Social Space between the Person and the State by Paul Adams and Michael Novak

Notes

Index