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"Social justice: the expression evokes images of protests in the streets, economic and political debates about human and civil rights, unions, wages, welfare programs for the poor, foreign aid, immigration, race conflicts, and even climate change. All seemingly intractable problems. Taking the wrong side of the debate can lead to exclusion from our inclusive society. One thing is always missing in our secular, pluralistic society: God and religion. The Church herself seems to enter the debate on the world's terms. Another thing is debated but seen as disconnected from the realm of social justice: marriage and family. In the Church we find a division between ""Social justice Catholics"" and ""Pro-life Catholics."" Marriage, family, and children end up losers in the public debate, sacrificed to misconceptions about the common good. The contention of The Stone Rejected by the Builders is that social justice has to do with the right order of human social life and this is impossible without right religion and healthy family life; these are indeed matters of social justice; without these the common good is unattainable."

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"The Stone Rejected by the Builders: Some Uncommon Reflections on Social Justice is marked by uncommon wisdom, and represents everything I as a bishop would pray that a parish priest could be for his people and all whose lives he may touch. May many people take heart from Father's insights and find in them the courage to live the Gospel in light! -✠ The Most Reverend Thomas E. Gullickson, Tit. Archbishop of Bomarzo - Apostolic NuncioIn this very insightful book Father Levine deals with the reality of the neo-pagan ideology that presently prevails in the United States-but more generally throughout the western world-in terms of ""social justice"" as understood in Catholic magisterial and foundational dogmatic and moral principles. -Rev. Msgr. Arthur B. CalkinsIn clear, everyday language, Fr. Levine guides us through the current maze of relativism, through the story of creation, to a sure understanding of the principles underlying the Church's teaching on social justice...in a brilliant and engrossing presentation of the Church's perennial social teaching. -Samuel A. Schmitt, MLM, PhD, Director of Sacred Music and Organist, Sts. Cyril and Methodius ChurchThe term ""social justice"" is often used- or abused- to support various ideological crusades. But what is social justice, and on what it is based? In this unusual book, Father Levine makes the perhaps startling argument that ""the proper Sunday observance is at the foundation of true social justice."" -Philip Lawler, author, Director of Catholic Culture & Editor of CWN Written for the layman, Fr. Levine has managed to present ""uncommon reflections"" which will also be enormously beneficial to the academic. This potentially life changing book belongs on the shelves of every Chancery, Seminary, Secondary school, College and University and, indeed, on the shelves of every Catholic."" -Mark Langley, Founder, The Lyceum, South Euclid, Ohio; Headmaster, Our Lady of Walsingham Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado"

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