"The nobly conceived and successfully executed work of which this is the third and final volume has been widely acclaimed as the archetype of the new-style moral theology which many have desired to see but have not ventured to provide. It is a moral theology in the fullest sense which seeks its inspiration in the biblical, patristic and liturgical sources of Christian moral doctrine at every stage, and gives expression to its findings. As the subtitle indicates, it has a mainly pastoral object in view, the formation in Christian moral science of clergy and layfolk alike." - Clergy Review.
In its exploration of the dominion of love, the present volume begins with an examination of fraternal charity with particular attention given to the obligation of the apostolate and its official forms.
The second and major part is devoted to ''Love of God and Neighbor Realized in Man's Life on Earth" and comprises five lengthy chapters in which are treated virtually all of the crucial moral questions of our time. Among these are: family life, the morality of war, the rights of the citizen, the Church and her relation to the State; death, suicide, and homicide; chastity, marriage, and virginity; justice with particular emphasis on the Christian economic order, including discussions of socialism, capitalism, liberalism, Marxism, strikes and lockouts, and finally, truth, art, movies, television, advertising, and mass media.