Pope Francis is making headlines with his efforts to get the Catholic church focused on the needs of the poor and downtrodden.
These are the same needs activist Paul Kivel has attempted to address in his own work. And while he lauds Christianity's good deeds over the years, he lays out a litany of ills performed in the name of Christ in his book Living in the Shadow of the Cross: Understanding and Resisting the Power and Privilege of Christian Hegemony.