The Catholic Teacher: Teaching for Social Justice with Faith, Hope, and Love

Cover
Contents
Foreword Peter Mayo
Preface: The Autobiographical Lens Channeling This Text
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section I Know Your Ecclesial Foundation: Engaging with Other Faith Traditions, Appreciating the Church’s Inclusive Umbrella, and Recognizing Teaching as a Vocation
	1 The Emergence and Meaning of “Catholic” in the Catholic Church
	2 That They All May Be One: Ecumenical, Interfaith, and Interreligious Dialogue
	3 An Inclusive Umbrella That Is the Church
	4 Teaching as a Vocation
Section II Know What Informs You: Personalism, Social Teachings of the Church, Liberation Theology, and a Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
	5 Looking through a Personalist Lens
	6 An Overview of the Social Teachings of the Church
	7 An Organic Link to Liberation Theology
	8 Enabling the Praxis of Liberation Theology
	9 A Critical Pedagogy in the Light of Faith
Section III Know Your Positionality: Confronting a Pandemic, Gun Control, Right to Life, and Climate Change
	10 The Courage to Take a Position
	11 Covid-19 and a Peculiar Toxic Discourse
	12 God, Guns, and Country
	13 Preserving the Sacredness of Life
	14 Climate Change and Ecological Conversion
Section IV Know the Spirituality That Enlightens You
	15 Grounded in a Contemplative Way of Being
Afterword Merylann “Mimi” J. Schuttloffel
Appendix A: Two Major Splits in the Church
Appendix B: The Concept of Virtue
Appendix C: The Cardinal Virtues (And Eschatological Virtues)
Notes
References
Index