“This important book about an important Church document and its implementation invites readers to study and understand Economic Justice for All and its ramifications for a just society. The text reflects the theologian’s role in the critical application of faith to reality and in stretching that faith to emerging realities. The book emphasizes central principles of Catholic social thought, including solidarity, participation, the universal destination of all creation, right relationships, and the preferential love of the poor. Then it applies them to contemporary challenges of globalization, poverty, welfare reform, racism, white economic advantage, immigrant justice, the world ecosystem, food security, and, perhaps surprisingly, worship. The readers challenges are many: to understand what the pastoral letter did and did not say; to grasp the revolutionary nature of the participative process used to develop the document; to appreciate the funding of a three-year implementation office to produce educational and pastoral resources; to reach beyond what was into the future; and to discern the strengths and weaknesses of the pastoral. Discussion questions at the end of the chapters assist readers with these challenges.”