IDEAS FOR REFLECTION

"The Vatican reflects on its mortal sins of the modern age"

2005 - Deus Caritas Est: God’s Love For Us

“A just society must be the achievement of politics, not of the Church. Yet the promotion of justice through efforts to bring about openness of mind and will to the demands of the common good is something which concerns the Church deeply. “

Pope Benedict XVI

November, 2007. Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship:
A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States

Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers

"Employers contribute to the common good through the services or products they provide and by creating jobs that uphold the dignity and rights of workers—to productive work, to decent and just wages, to adequate benefits and security in their old age, to the choice of whether to organize and join unions, to the opportunity for legal status for immigrant workers, to private property, and to economic initiative."