This book demonstrates that Roman Catholicism is a highly structured faith as manifested through sacraments, canon law, the hierarchy and papacy, and its doctrinal and dogmatic teachings. Catholicism, however, is much more than an inanimate structure; it is a very vibrant and lively faith that is expressed through an active engagement with society. Beginning overtly in the late nineteenth century, Social Catholicism puts into practice, in the everyday lives of people, the teachings of Jesus Christ, who came not to be served but to serve.