United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response (Moral Traditions)
by Thomas J. Massaro
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The Welfare Reform Act of 1996 drastically changed the delivery of social services in the United States for the first time in sixty years. More than a decade later, according to Catholic social ethicist Thomas Massaro, a disturbing gap exists between the laws we have enacted as a nation and the moral concerns we profess as a people. Massaro contends that ethicists too often focus on strictly theoretical concerns rather than engaging concrete social and political issues, while public policy show more experts are uncomfortable drawing ethical judgments about legislation. United States Welfare Policy takes show lessTags
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Thomas Massaro is professor of moral theology and director of the S.T.L. Program at the School of Theology and Ministry at Boston College.
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- Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Politics and Government
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- 261.8 — Religion Christian organization, social work & worship Social theology and interreligious relations and attitudes Christianity and socioeconomic problems
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- BX1795 .P83 .M37 — Philosophy, Psychology and Religion Christian Denominations Christian Denominations Catholic Church
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