Essays commissioned for a conference to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Rerum novarum, University of San Francisco, 1991.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : A Tradition Celebrated, Reevaluated, and Applied -- The Tradition: History and New Directions -- A Century of Catholic Social Teaching -- Neither Liberal nor Socialist -- Social Movements and Catholic Social Thought -- The Right and Competence of the Church in the American Case -- Catholic Social Teaching and Human Morality -- Justice in the Church -- The Family in Catholic Social Thought -- Marriage -- Family as Domestic Church -- The Moral Imperatives of Christian Marriage - Reflections on the Catholic Tradition of Family Rights -- The Family -- Human Sexuality -- Work in Catholic Social Thought -- The Economic Pastoral Letter Revisited -- Incentives and the Organization of Work -- Worker Rights and Responsibilities in a Changed Competitive Context -- Capitalism after Communism -- Women's Ways of Working -- Peace in Catholic Social Thought -- The Challenge of Peace Revisited -- Peace and Pluralism -- Peacemaking as a Way of Life -- The Continuing Problem of Deterrence -- Pacifism and the Just War Tradition in Roman Catholic Social Teaching -- Conditions of Peace in the New International System