Justice in the Marketplace
Jordan, Patrick
IN BRIEF Justice in the Marketplace: Collected Statements of the Vatican and the U.S. Catholic Bishops on Economic Policy, 1891-1984. Edited by David M. Byers, with introductions by John T....
...This tenor is reinforced by including (as an appendix) the 1983 Canadian bishops' statement fora "radical inversion" of the structures of the Canadian economy in light of Christian moral principles...
...This is a major sourcebook of Catholic social thought articulated by the papacy and the bishops of the United States in the last century...
...Many of the entries will have passed readers by, particularly the American 30 January 1987: 59 documents...
...Edited by David M. Byers, with introductions by John T. Pawlikowski...
...The pointcdness and brevity of the Canadian document could serve as a model for future papal and episcopal letters...
...p j 60: Commonweal...
...But their relevance to the present process of composing a contemporary U.S.-Catholic statement on economic matters is nothing less than substantive...
...Office of Publishing, United States Catholic Conference, $14.95, 520 pp...
...They also demonstrate that a number of vexing questions —e.g., the gross inequality of the distribution of goods, and the disastrous economic consequences of the arms race (c.f., the U.S...
...The volume provides ready access to a body of thought too little known, and too little heeded...
...The general introduction, as well as introductions to specific documents, all by John T. Pawlikowski, are inviting and succinct...
...They point out relevant themes, trace their development or truncation, and establish their appropriate historical and ecclcsial contexts...
...bishops' 1931 statement) —have not only been raised in previous studies, but answered in sometimes prophetic, even radical terms...
...As such, it is a useful reference tool capable of shaking the conscience...
Vol. 114 • January 1987 • No. 2
