developing countries

For the first time in its two thousand-year history the Catholic Church can now truly claim to be a 'universal' church. No longer the church of the Latin West, it has become the church 'of six continents', a World Church in which the peoples of theThird world predominate. Such a fundamental shift in the church'e awareness of itself is perhaps more radical in its implications than the Second Vatican Council - yet this seismic shift has hardly registered within the Church of the First World.

Explains the world's financial system and how it functions and the problems created by the increasing debts owed by developing nations.

Examines the lifestyles of women born and raised in developing nations, focusing on their education, employment, marriage, and family life.