Acknowledgements Introduction: Reasons for Hope in a Divided Church PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR COMMON GROUND 1. Faithful Citizenship: Is There Hope for Politics? Moving from Faith to Politics The Contemporary Context: Three Reasons for Skepticism Public Faith in "the Space Between": Realism and Humility "Be the Church"? Notes 2. Cooperation with Evil: Personal Responsibility for Social Problems Cooperation in the Manuals of Moral Theology Cooperation and the Contemporary Political Scene A Deepening Awareness of Social Sin White Privilege The Case of Sweatshop Clothing Conclusion Notes 3. Why Bother to Act Locally? The Potential of the "Space Between" A Social Ethic for Ordinary Christians Faithful and Effective Politics: Necessary but Insufficient Personal Transformation through Local Action Possibilities of Social Change from Below Notes PART II: CASES 4. Family: What Does It Mean to Be Promarriage? A Theological Vision of Marriage Marriage and Relationship Education Jobs and Just Wages Helping Married Couples Avoid Divorce and Providing Support after Divorce Common Ground and Progress Notes 5. Poverty Reduction: A Social Virtue Ethic New Problems, New Possibilities Principles of Poverty Reduction Strategies for Poverty Reduction Adapting Contemporary Catholic Responses to Poverty From Above, From Below, and in Between Notes 6. Abortion: Toward Cooperation with the Good Law and Public Opinion: Where are we? What is Possible? Human Life, Women's Agency, and the Cooperation with Evil Listening to Young, Unmarried Pregnant Women The Limits of Traditional Strategies Building a Culture That Welcomes New Life What Are We Hoping For? Notes 7. End-of-Life Care: Enabling Better Practices for Dying Well Human Dignity: Finitude, Vulnerability, and Community Autonomy and Control Understanding the Social Context Building Up an Alternative Context "Changing the World" Notes Conclusion: Francis and Ferguson Index.