Christ's presence in the that is the reality to which too many Christian eyes are dimmed. Yet all our talk of reform and renewal will come to nought unless the Church-and we are the Church-faces the challenge of poverty. A few years ago the Roman Catholic Church was regarded, by foe and fried alike, as a bastion against whatever "ism" was challenging the status quo. That attitude was, on examination, more an indictment than a compliment. This disturbing book should shake our complacency. There is urgency and holy anger in its pages. But time is running out, and there is need for the anger and anguish of concern. The work raises questions in stark perspective and tells us that unless the Church becomes the Church of the Poor it cannot hope to speak to modern man.