Laborem Exercens: A Spirituality of Work
“There was once a little man called Niggle, who had a long journey to make. He did not want to go, indeed the whole idea was distasteful to him; but…
Worker Rights
Marc Chagall’s White Crucifixion, which is reportedly one of Pope Francis’ favorite works of art, unites a crucifix with imagery of one of the greatest abuses against human dignity in…
The Conflict Between Labor and Capital
Even before he became Pope John Paul II, work was a major theme in Karol Wojtyla’s life, a theme that weaves through his poetry. Wojtyla wrote poems about quarry workers,…
5 Things to Know about Solidarity
The notion of Six Degrees of Separation suggests that each of us is separated from everybody else on the planet by only six degrees of separation, or even less. In…
5 Things to Know about the Environment
“When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one,…
5 Things to Know about the Dignity of Workers
Have you ever found yourself in such a state of frenzy to get your work done that you pulled an all-nighter? Have you ever stopped eating, except for pop-tarts while…
5 Things to Know about the Preferential Option for the Poor
“Love for others, and in the first place love for the poor, in whom the Church sees Christ in himself, is made concrete in the promotion of justice.” St. John…
5 Things to Know about Human Rights
In an article published back in 1991, Mary Ann Glendon warned, “A tendency to frame nearly every social controversy in terms of a clash of rights (a woman’s right to…
5 Things to Know about the Call to Family, Community, and Participation
Smoking marijuana in one’s room, watching pornography secretly, cheating a tax system… how do these actions affect community? To what extent I am called to participate in community and how…
5 Things to Know about Human Dignity
To engage the culture means to communicate with it in order to communicate to it. To engage the culture we need to understand the principles of thought that allow for…