Justice and Peace in a Renewed Caribbean: Contemporary Catholic Reflections

Product Description This collection of critical essays and personal reflections explores the insights provided by official statements of the Roman Catholic Bishops of the Caribbean. In so doing, it presents a critical reading of the corpus with a view to presenting its relevance to the regional and global conversation on matters of human flourishing. Review "This volume serves as a reference point and model by which any new documents could be related to this collection, and would probably be cited as such a reference point in future years. Because there is no comparable book to this volume, it will remain the 'go-to' base for anyone who wants a brief but professional introduction to the local Roman Catholic response to some pressing Caribbean issues in the last part of the twentieth century and early years of the new millennium." - Fr. Paul Zilonka, C.P., The Passionists"This text is essentially a secondary reference that will help scholars as well as pastoral ministers sharpen their exegesis of the actual pastoral letters themselves and provoke new directions for scholarly research and homiletics." - John Francis Burke, Cabrini College, USA About the Author ANNA KASAFI PERKINS is the former Dean of Studies at St. Michael's Theological College in Jamaica. DONALD CHAMBERS is a pastor at Holy Cross Church in Kingston, Jamaica, and a former lecturer/formator at the Regional Seminary, St. John Vianney and the Uganda Martyrs in Trinidad. JACQUELINE PORTER is currently a lecturer in Religious Education and Spanish at the St. Joseph's Teachers' College in St. Andrew, Jamaica.