Each year in celebrating the feast of St. Joseph the Worker we remember: “We were created with a vocation to work.” (Pope Francis, 128)
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Structural Poverty and Catholic Social Teaching
Structural poverty is particularly egregious for “those living in conditions opposed to human dignity: those who lack basic rights and needs such as food, water, hygiene, work and the opportunity to develop and grow culturally”. (Pope Francis, 2)
Who are the Working Poor?
Visit any impoverished town or inner city and it will be clear that material lack is not the key problem.
There is a widespread understanding among business leaders and economic think-tanks that business will need to be radica (…)
Vatican II approach: “To see (to study the facts); To judge (to apply moral, theological, and spiritual perspective); (…)
Issues of life had been somewhat quarantined from Catholic social teaching and were considered a separate branch of mora (…)
While Pope Benedict XVI identifies in Caritas in Veritate that implementing Catholic social teaching is a way for the la (…)
Pope Benedict XVI identifies that the Church "above all…works…to protect mankind from self-destruction." (…)
Continuing our summary of Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict XVI teaches us that without God “development is either d (…)
