Social doctrine and labor unions In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote in Rerum Novarum that a worker’s wages should support the worker and his family. His understanding of marriage and family—which together form the nucleus […]
Sixty years ago, high school and college-age students took low-wage jobs at fast-food chains and restaurants as part-time or summer work. Today’s mature workers, often low-income women, have made these and similar jobs full-time, and […]
The Feast of St. Joseph the Worker strikes a chord that reverberates through the body and soul of every reflective Catholic boy or man. Without denying the contributions women have made in every era, Catholic […]
The powers of the soul; the will of God or individual will? In the First Exercise of the Spiritual Exercises (paras. 45-54), St. Ignatius of Loyola speaks of the “three powers of the soul”: memory, […]
Labor Day 2022 is upon us, and in the past, labor priests like Fathers Peter Yorke, John Ryan, Charles Own Rice, Andy Boss, SJ, Phillip Carey, SJ, John Corridan, SJ, Raymond McGowan, George Higgins, Jack […]
Editor’s note: The following essay was given, in slightly different form, as an address on October 16, 2021, at the Studium Theologicum Salesianum, Salesian Pontifical University, Jerusalem Campus. ———— Allow me to begin this Dies […]
The explosive development of automation, robotics, and AI requires a dedicated focus on the role of conscience—our spiritual life—to help us respond to the challenges […]
What is the responsibility of Catholic school teachers with regard to the spoken and lived representation of Catholic moral values? Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s 2009 encyclical Caritas in Veritate is a helpful point of departure […]
Catholic religious leaders have long supported the labor movement in the United States because it has promoted the economic wellbeing of workers and their families. The Irish, Italian, and Slavic immigrants of the past, and […]
Two years ago, Dr. Rupert J. Ederer wrote in Inside the Vatican that while Karl Marx’s economic theory proposed inevitable class conflict, Father Heinrich Pesch, SJ’s (1854-1926) theory focused on social justice (giving what is […]
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