Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Early historical context and taking care of our own
  • The social mission of the church in the first part of the twentieth century
  • The understanding of the church after Vatican II
  • Vatican II and a new understanding of the social mission
  • Post-Vatican II developments of three earlier instances of the social mission
  • Three significant issues in the post-Vatican II church
  • Roles of the church in supporting the social mission
  • U.S. bishops and abortion law
  • Conclusions : looking backward and forward.