Orbis Book Club

The Orbis Book Club meets once every three months to discuss and reflect on a book published by Orbis Books. In our most recent meeting, we read and discussed Frederick John Dalton's book: The Moral Vision of César Chávez. This book provides a glimpse into the cause of social justice for migrant farmworkers that moved César Chávez. But more interestingly, the book demonstrates clearly how César Chávez's worldview and social justice mission was shaped by a moral vision conditioned by his Catholic faith and the social justice teachings of the Catholic Church.

At our next meeting, we will be discussing James Hodge and Linda Cooper's new book on Louisiana's own Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois and his efforts to shut down the School of the Americas (currently know as the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - or WHINSEC). This book is titled: Disturbing the Peace: The Story of Father Roy Bourgeois and the Movement to Close the School of the Americas.

Many of us are familiar with the work of Fr. Bourgeois regarind the School of the Americas, but this book goes beyond the School of the Americas and takes on the broader U.S. Foreign Policy dynamic that contributes to the continued existence of social injustice throughout the world.

Check out both books and read along with us!