We are proud to present the Stabat Mater Press: The Library of Catholic Political Thought series, which is a growing, rigorously edited and carefully cited collection of works that articulate the Catholic understanding of political order, authority, law, and the moral structure of society. Each volume, while prepared to a high academic standard, is worthy of serious study for both the layman and the academic. The series is primarily intended to equip lay Catholics for their God-given responsibility within the temporal sphere, offering clear principles drawn from the Church’s intellectual tradition so that political life may be understood, judged, and shaped according to the Social Kingship of Christ.