Faith & Joy"Hope is necessary in our lives. . . . . We have lost some battles but I believe that our cause is invincible because it is the cause of justice, the cause of love." Fernando Cardenal Fernando Cardenal, a Nicaraguan Jesuit priest, oversaw a national literacy campaign and served as Minister of Education in the revolutionary Sandinista government in the 1980s. The Sandinista revolution was unusual for the wide participation of Christians in the

and directs an Institute for Advanced Studies in Social Ethics in Salzburg

to partners in the civil rights struggle

was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Philadelphia in 1961 and served for four years at St

is widely regarded as one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century

his prosthetics

and Cry of the Earth

As his letters

even in the midst of affliction

concluding with a chapter that returns to the question of the relevance of John's vision to the current global economic empire

many of these people want nothing to do with it

"Harris rightly asks important questions: What are the relationships between human communities and the Earth

can all benefit from its thoughtful and timely message