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She demonstrates how current US immigration policies reflect harmful neoliberal economic priorities, and why immigration cannot be reduced to security or legal issues alone; rather, immigration involves a broad array of economic issues, trade policies, concerns of cultural tolerance and criminal justice, and, at root, an understanding of the human person. Grounded in scriptural, anthropological, and social teachings, a Christian ethic of immigration calls society to promote structures and practices reflecting kinship and justice. The person-centered approach Heyer proposes demands basic changes to systems and rhetoric that abet and disguise immigrants' exploitation and death, requiring enhanced human rights protections and respect for the rule of law. Central to this ethic is attentiveness to the lived experiences of immigrants and a theologically inspired summons to subversive hospitality.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49891047178513,"sku":"CIN158901930XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50926276378897,"sku":"CIN158901930XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52144605266193,"sku":"NLS9781589019300","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/158901930X.jpg?v=1751150609"},{"product_id":"building-bridges-in-sarajevo-book-kristin-e-heyer-9781626983427","title":"Building Bridges in Sarajevo","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50395031699729,"sku":"CIN1626983429VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1626983429.jpg?v=1751151608"},{"product_id":"catholics-and-politics-book-kristin-e-heyer-9781589012158","title":"Catholics and Politics","description":"Catholic political identity and engagement defy categorization. The complexities of political realities and the human nature of such institutions as church and government often produce a more fractured reality than the pure unity depicted in doctrine. Yet, in 2003 under the leadership of then-prefect Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI), the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued a \"Doctrinal Note on Some Questions Regarding the Participation of Catholics in Political Life\". The note explicitly asserts, \"The Christian faith is an integral unity, and thus it is incoherent to isolate some particular element to the detriment of the whole of Catholic doctrine. A political commitment to a single isolated aspect of the Church's social doctrine does not exhaust one's responsibility toward the common good\". \"Catholics and Politics\" takes up the political and theological significance of this \"integral unity\", the universal scope of Catholic concern that can make for strange political bedfellows, confound predictable voting patterns, and leave the church poised to critique narrowly partisan agendas across the spectrum. \"Catholics and Politics\" depicts the ambivalent character of Catholics' mainstream \"arrival\" in the U.S. over the past forty years, integrating social scientific, historical and moral accounts of persistent tensions between faith and power. Divided into four parts - Catholic Leaders in U.S. Politics; The Catholic Public; Catholics and the Federal Government; and, International Policy and the Vatican - it describes the implications of Catholic universalism for voting patterns, international policymaking, and partisan alliances. The book reveals complex intersections of Catholicism and politics and the new opportunities for influence and risks of cooptation of political power produced by these shifts. Contributors include political scientists, ethicists, and theologians. The book will be of interest to scholars in political science, religious studies, and Christian ethics and all lay Catholics interested in gaining a deeper understanding of the tensions that can exist between church doctrine and partisan politics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50764521505041,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50764524945681,"sku":"CIN1589012151VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52686145585425,"sku":"NLS9781589012158","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1589012151.jpg?v=1751341523"},{"product_id":"prophetic-and-public-book-kristin-e-heyer-9781589010826","title":"Prophetic and Public","description":"If faithful Catholics are called to be a light to the world, how should they make their faith known? What sort of public witness best reflects authentically Catholic behavior? Christians through the ages have faced a dilemma: if you want to remain morally pure, you'll have no impact on the system; but if you try to change the system, you'll compromise your moral purity. So while an ethicist such as Michael Baxter--one of the figures Heyer discusses--claims that the most important thing the church can do is to be prophetic, and champion nonviolence, and not get its hands dirty in politics, that's fine--but that speaks to only one aspect of what it means to be Catholic. Similarly, while the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops--which Heyer also discusses--can forumulate brilliant philosophical pronouncements and policies on just warfare, say, that recognize the role of government, they, too, are speaking to one side of the faith spectrum. Both sides are witnessing to their faith, and both are genuinely Catholic, but both sides are incomplete. Heyer looks at two prominent Catholics--Baxter and Bryan Hehir--as well as three Catholic social justice organizations--NETWORK, Pax Christi USA, and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops--and demonstrates how their differing methods of public witness are both legitimate and complementary. Catholics, Heyer writes, should recognize and appreciate that there is no single, correct means of public witness.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52349508190481,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52349509009681,"sku":"NLS9781589010826","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781589010826.jpg?v=1758179364"},{"product_id":"catholics-and-politics-book-kristin-e-heyer-9781589012165","title":"Catholics and Politics","description":"Catholic political identity and engagement defy categorization. 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