Drawing on his long experience of having lectured, written on and taught the topic, Kenneth Himes has gathered here some of the most frequently asked questions on Catholic social teaching. Using the always popular Responses to 101 Questions format, he introduces this important part of the Catholic tradition to students as well as inquiring believers.

Some of the topics covered in the questions are: human dignity and human rights; the kinds of justice; family and social structures; justice and political life; the meaning of human work; labour unions and the rights of labour; the just wage; capitalism, socialism and communism; the just war tradition; pacifism; the arms race; debt forgiveness; women in society; racism; immigration and the death penalty.

Fr. Jim Bacik is a priest of the Diocese of Toledo, ordained in 1962, and is the former pastor of Corpus Christi University Parish in Toledo. He has his doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford and has published numerous articles and fifteen books. Fr. Bacik has taught graduate theology courses at Notre Dame University, Fordham University, the University of San Francisco, and the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago. He has also lectured widely around the United States and internationally.