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Scholars have made urban mothers living in poverty a focus of their research for decades. These women s lives can be difficult as they go about searching for housing and decent jobs andstruggling to care for their children whilesurviving on welfare or working at low-wage service jobs and sometimes facing physical or mental health problems. But until now little attention has been paid to an important force in these women s lives: religion.Based on in-depth interviews with women and pastors, Susan Crawford Sullivan presents poor mothers often overlooked views. Recruited from a variety of social...

A Vision of Justice: Engaging Catholic Social Teaching on the College Campus draws together the insights of social scientists, historians, and theologians in order to introduce readers to central topics in Catholic Social Teaching and to provide concrete examples of how it is being put into action by colleges and college students. The authors bring their disciplinary backgrounds andknowledge of Catholic Social Teaching to the exploration of the issues, making the book suitable for use in a wide range of courses and settings. Discussion questions at the end of each chapter help readers to...