United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response. By Thomas J. Massaro, S.J. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007. 225 pp. $59.95 cloth; $26.95 paper.
In the preface of the book, United States Welfare Policy: A Catholic Response, Massaro states, "This volume is a work of religious social ethics" (p. ix) and in this manner frames the discourse that follows. Principally, the author applies Catholic social teaching to a segment of contemporary federal social welfare policy, explicitly the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program (TANF). Massaro's work is not comprehensive in its treatment of Catholic social teaching and social welfare policy analysis, ...