Dr. Brennan Hill delivers brief biographies on various individuals who fought the evils of social injustice:

• Jean Donovan, a lay missionary martyred in El Salvador
• Sr. Helen Prejean, advocate against the death penalty and author (and the only person of this group still living)
• Sr. Dorothy Stang, an advocate for the poor who was martyred in Brazil
• Fr. Pedro Arrupe, former superior general of the Jesuits
• Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and author
• St. Maximilian Kolbe, who was martyred by the Nazis
• Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, former archbishop of Chicago
• and the Venerable Pope John Paul II, the third-longest serving pope

Dr. Brennan R. Hill is professor emeritus in the theology department at Xavier University in Cincinnati and the author of 8 Freedom Heroes: Changing the World with Faith and 8 Spiritual Heroes: Their Search for God. This inspiring, thought-provoking book is highly recommended to those interested in saints or heroic Christians.