Lawrence McCulloch Thomas Fenton Eugene Toland
justice and Peace: A Radical Analysis
If we a-re to avoid preaching platitudes when we preach justice, we nwst do our homework in economics.
As priests we are increasingly aware of our responsibility
to relate the gospel demands for justice and peace to the real world in which we live. Because of our training in theology, we should have a fairly good grasp of what these demands are. Where we may be caught short, however, is in our understanding of the "real world." Without realizing it, our view of reality can have some serious blind spots. If this is the case our ministry for justice and peace could be seriously affected. An area of life we priests tend to have only a passing acquaintance with is the economic. Few of us, for example, have devoted much time to a study of our economic system in the U.S. We may have had an economics course in college, but that is 131