The urgent now;: Sermons on contemporary issues

Asserting at once the moral imperatives of his faith and acting effectively to give force to those imperatives by political action, Bishop Armstrong relates his own special effort in the landmark political crucible of 1968. One senses that these lively sermons will continue to make his conscience and his voice meaningful instruments in the battles that lie ahead. International anarchy, national arrogance, nuclear weaponry, technological revolution, the ghetto, poverty, racial explosiveness, human hopelessness - these are the concerns of Bishop Armstrong as preacher and activist. The thoughtful reader of these sermons will profit both in the enrichment of his spirit and in new awareness of the urgent claims of the community upon his conscience and his will to do action.