Passion for the Inner City (2nd ed.)

"There is little credibility in healing a privileged world. If the Church is failing the powerless of this world, it is failing the Gospel totally." In 1971, two priests from a Catholic order left their monastery in order to reinvent the contemplative life amid a Liverpool community oppressed by poverty and systemic racism. Foreshadowing the 'new monastic' movement, the members of a 300-year-old religious order began to translate the radical, self-sacrificial values of monastic living into an op