Most Rev. Walter F. Sullivan

Why Good People Do Bad Things

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“The 1971 Synod of Bishops made a major contribution to Catholic social teaching when it insisted, 'Action on behalf of justice and participation in the transformation of the world fully appear to us as a constitutive dimension of the preaching of the Gospel.' In Why Good People Do Bad Things, Gerard Vanderhaar moves this moral claim from the abstract world of synod documents to the lives of 'good people' who are trying to not 'do bad things.' I recommend it highly.”