About a criminal life, personal transformation through education and deep spiritual work, the principles of Catholic social teaching, and the type of leadership needed for transformation programs.

What is important about this book-in the context of our apostolate work through The Lampstand Foundation-is not the theory of Communism, "to each according to need," which many may support; but the influence on criminals from the system of government and its practice under Lenin and Stalin in Russia, Mao in China, and the lessor monsters of our world; practice continuing largely unchanged today except as modified within the constrictions created by the ability of global communications about governmental atrocities making it much more difficult to keep such atrocities hidden now than during...