The interest of Catholic social teaching is not on the Great Resignation itself, but on the conditions of work, the expectations of employers and employees, and other issues of work.

The interest of Catholic social teaching is not on the Great Resignation itself, but on the conditions of work, the expectations of employers and employees, and other issues of work.
Each year in celebrating the feast of St. Joseph the Worker we remember: “We were created with a vocation to work.” (Pope Francis, 128)
Pope Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum was published during the tempestuous years of the Industrial Revolution, and as such was The Church’s first social commentary – and our first resource in Catholic Social Teaching – considering the rights of the worker.