What is the relationship between personal and social sin? Sincere Christians are beginning to realize that sin involves more than individual actions and choices. Sin is a social reality. Vast and complex institutions and structures include the evil that becomes firmly entrenched in the structures society. Even responsible Christian become unwittingly involved in violations of human rights and dignity. How can our individual responsibilities and awareness shape an authentic and workable social conversion? Mark O'Keefe, O.S.B. helps us answer these contemporary moral questions with a complete survey of current treatments in social-sin theology. He widens our perspective as he examines the Catholic tradition concerning the relationships between personal and social-sin and the process by which such sin becomes embodied in social structures.