The Mass is not a private service but rather the community celebration of God's work in a world that is broken through tragedy and injustice. Darring takes the reader on a journey through the Mass, using personal encounters which have impacted his life. The result is a unique experience of the social justice impact of celebrating the Mass.

This is a book about the genocidal attack on the Jews perpetrated by the National Socialist regime in Germany in the 1930s and 1940s. The attack was carried out by the Germans and their collaborators, and succeeded in destroying nearly six million Jewish lives, thousands of Jewish communities, and an entire Jewish culture. It has been suggested that the Holocaust was about something deeper than antisemitism or hatred for the Jews. The Jews are always at the center of whatever "explanation" is given for the Holocaust, but some have attempted to probe deeper, looking for an understanding of...

Sacred Scripture and contemporary Church teaching inspire these unique Sunday meditations for the liturgical year. Gerald Darring's special approach directs our attention outward, toward the world that is to be served by the Church

Since Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "On the Condition of Workers" (Rerum Novarum), the Catholic church has produced a significant volume of teachings on the major social issues of our time. This book is an attempt to synthesize the main outlines of that teaching in a compact, accessible form. Using the question and answer format, each question is answered with a direct quote from an official document of the church. The areas covered are social justice, economic justice, political justice, environmental justice, discrimination, war and peace, and capital punishment. The book is suitable for adult...