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In Sharing God's Good Company David Matzko McCarthy explores the
role and significance of the saints in Christians' lives today.
While examining the lives of specific saints like Martin de Porres,
Therese de Lisieux, and Mother Teresa, McCarthy especially focuses
on such topics as the veneration of martyrs, realism and
hagiography, science and miracles, images and pilgrimage, and why
the saints continue to captivate Christians and inspire devotion.
Although books about saints abound, Sharing God's Good Company
takes a uniquely philosophical and theological approach to the
topic. Interested general readers and Catholic scholars alike will
find McCarthy's book refreshing and informative.
The Catholic Church teaches that punishment must have a
constructive and redemptive purpose and that it be coupled with
treatment and, when possible, restitution. Rehabilitation and
restoration must include the spiritual dimension of healing and
hope. Since the publication of the United States Conference of
Catholic Bishop's 2000 pastoral statement on restorative justice,
the conversation surrounding the need for criminal justice reform
and restorative justice has moved forward. Redemption and
Restoration responds from a Catholic perspective to help form an
educational campaign to equip Catholics and their leaders to
participate in the national conversation on this issue, create the
programs needed to assist in healing the harm caused by crime, and
restore our communities. The book develops the traditional Catholic
understanding of justice, offers a theological understanding of
restorative justice, explains how it can be implemented, and
reflects on the practical arguments for restorative justice.
Grounded in the stories of real people, Redemption and Restoration
helps readers gain a deeper understanding of how this affects us
all as a country and a church. It includes discussion questions to
engage groups in exploring issues related to restorative justice.
David Matzko McCarthy's Death Penalty and Discipleship is a faith
formation resource to help communities and individuals reflect more
deeply on capital punishment. It incorporates Scripture, Catholic
social teaching, and contemporary issues that focus on the meaning
of God's self-giving in Jesus Christ and the implications of God's
redemptive work in our lives. McCarthy shows how the church's
stance against the death penalty fits with Scripture, even passages
such as "an eye for an eye..." (Lev 24:19-20); he attends to the
teachings of Jesus and draws out themes of restorative justice; and
he concludes by locating work to end the death penalty within St.
John Paul II's call for a new evangelization. God loves the world
and gives himself to the world, and we are called to share God's
justice and mercy with others. In this insightful and challenging
resource, McCarthy encourages us to follow the call of Pope Francis
to live out the love and mercy of God for all the world.
"Where Justice and Mercy Meet: Catholic Opposition to the Death
Penalty" comprehensively explores the Catholic stance against
capital punishment in new and important ways. The broad perspective
of this book has been shaped in conversation with the Catholic
Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty, as well as
through the witness of family members of murder victims and the
spiritual advisors of condemned inmates.
The book offers the reader new insight into the debates about
capital punishment; provides revealing, and sometimes surprising,
information about methods of execution; and explores national and
international trends and movements related to the death penalty. It
also addresses how the death penalty has been intertwined with
racism, the high percentage of the mentally disabled on death row,
and how the death penalty disproportionately affects the poor.
The foundation for the church's position on the death penalty is
illuminated by discussion of the life and death of Jesus,
Scripture, the Mass, the "Catechism of the Catholic Church," and
the teachings of Pope John Paul II. Written for concerned Catholics
and other interested readers, the book contains contemporary
stories and examples, as well as discussion questions to engage
groups in exploring complex issues.
Gathered for the Journey sets moral reasoning in a theological
context of worship and discipleship (part 1), provides a framework
for the moral life based on questions of human fulfillment (part
2), and demonstrates how these theological resources shape a
distinctive approach to questions of globalization, Catholic social
teaching, the family, war and peace, bioethics, and the environment
(part 3). McCarthy and Lysaught have crafted a distinctively
unified collection. Gathered for the Journey represents a common
project among Catholic scholars who are struggling with similar
questions about living faithfully.
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The Good Life (Paperback)
David Matzko McCarthy
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In contrast to consumerism, which encourages shallow relationships,
McCarthy explains how the love of God fosters a deep attachment to
the world, and that a right ordering of desires will lead
Christians to an enjoyment of life that require less "stuff."
In this new textbook two Catholic ethicists with extensive teaching
experience present a moral theology based on vision-the idea that
how we see the world shapes our choices and actions. David Matzko
McCarthy and James M. Donohue draw widely from the western
philosophical tradition while integrating biblical and theological
themes in order to explore such fundamental questions as What is
good? The book's fourteen chapters are short and thematic.
Substantive study questions engage with primary texts and get
students to apply theory to everyday life and common human
experiences. The book is accessibly written and flexible enough to
fit into any undergraduate or seminary course on ethics.
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