Act Justly, Love Mercifully, and Walk Humbly with Your God

Don McNeill

• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781449483609
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Ministry

The Center for Social Concerns provides community-based learning courses, community-based research, and service opportunities for students and faculty and lies at the heart of the University of Notre Dame. It is a place where faith and action, service and learning, research and resolve intersect. For more than 30 years the Center has offered educational experiences in social concerns inspired by Gospel values and the Catholic social tradition so that students and faculty may better understand and respond to poverty and injustice. Through the Center's programs students, faculty, staff, and alumni are enabled to think critically about today's complex social realities and about their responsibilities in facing them.
The Second Vatican Council articulated the significance of the baptismal call to discipleship for all believers, emphasizing active participation of the laity in the life of the church in the world. Responding to that urging, the Congregation of Holy Cross dedicated themselves to intentional formation of the laity through academic study of theology and through long-term immersion at their aposolates in the United States, Peru, Chile, and Uganda. The Center for Social Concerns, founded at the University of Notre Dame in 1983 by Fr. Don McNeill, C.S.C, deepened these efforts through a combination of pastoral theology, community-based learning, and lay formation for mission.
This edited volume consists of eleven firsthand accounts from those directly formed by the Center for Social Concerns' approach to pastoral theology and through post-graduate collaboration in ministry with the Congregation of the Holy Cross. These fifteen essays will hold great interest for Catholics wishing to explore the implications of Vatican II for the church's mission in the world, for undergraduate and graduate students focusing on pastoral theology and missiology, and for all the people of good drawn to explore the relationships between faith and justice, contemplation and action.

Table of contents

• Introduction - Fr. Don McNeill, C.S.C., and Margaret Pfeil
• Chapter 1:Walking Humbly with God: Vatican II after Fifty Years and the Center for Social Concerns after Thirty Years - Andrea Smith Shappell and Felicia Johnson O’Brien
• Chapter 2: Vatican II and Lay Formation: The Early Years of the Community for the International Lay Apostolate (CILA) - Maureen R. O’Brien
• Chapter 3: Taking It to the Streets: The Prophetic Vision of Msgr. Jack Egan and Peggy Roach - Barbara Frey
• Chapter 4: Walk the Walk - Stacy Hennessy
• Chapter 5: Contemplation and Action: Conversations with Sr. Judith Anne Beattie, C.S.C., and Mary Ann Roemer - Margaret Pfeil
• Chapter 6: Holy Cross Associates and Formation in Lay Vocation - Matt Feeney
• Chapter 7: Holy Cross Associates in the United States: Sociological Insights into Formation in Intentional Community - Mary Ellen Konieczny
• Chapter 8: Learning to Fail: Lay Formation and the Holy Cross Associates - Bill Cavanaugh
• Chapter 9: From Notre Dame to Chile and Back: Living Faith and Justice - Lou Nanni
• Chapter 10: Canto Grande - Charles Kenney
• Chapter 11: Holy Cross in Uganda: Living the Lay Vocation Theologically - Paul Mitchell
• Afterword - Fr. Paul Kollman, C.S.C.