Resources for Catholic Educators

• Homiletic and Pastoral Review -Theology of Work
• "Make minimum wage a just wage" - by Christopher Ringwald.
• Reflections on 2 Tessalonians 3:7-12 By Archbishop Daniel E. Pilarczyk Archdiocese of Cincinnati
• Rerum Novarum (On the Condition of Workers) - encyclical of Leo XIII
• The right to work: what does the Catholic Church teach? by Bishop Kevin Manning, from AD2000 Vol 11 No 11 (December 1998 - January 1999), p. 12
• Seven Steps to Finding God at Your Desk, By Brian Finnerty
• The Spirituality of Work
• Thoughts from a Working Person’s Pope - Greg Pierce (April 17, 2005)
• Toward a spirituality of work, Elizabeth A.Dreyer, The Catholic World, July 1994
• Work dignifies a person's life, or at least it should - by Dennis Coday, NCR staff writer
  

Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church On Work

CHAPTER SIX
HUMAN WORK

I. BIBLICAL ASPECTS
a. The duty to cultivate and care for the earth
b. Jesus, a man of work
c. The duty to work

II. THE PROPHETIC VALUE OF “RERUM NOVARUM”

III. THE DIGNITY OF WORK
a. The subjective and objective dimensions of work
b. The relationship between labour and capital
c. Work, the right to participate
d. The relationship between labour and private property
e. Rest from work

IV. THE RIGHT TO WORK
a. Work is necessary
b. The role of the State and civil society in promoting the right to work
c. The family and the right to work
d. Women and the right to work
e. Child labour
f. Immigration and work
g. The world of agriculture and the right to work

V. THE RIGHTS OF WORKERS
a. The dignity of workers and the respect for their rights
b. The right to fair remuneration and income distribution
c. The right to strike

VI. SOLIDARITY AMONG WORKERS
a. The importance of unions
b. New forms of solidarity

VII. THE “NEW THINGS” OF THE WORLD OF WORK
a. An epoch-making phase of transition
b. Social doctrine and the “new things”

Articles on the Compendium of the Catholic Church
by the Catholic Commission for Social Justice from Catholic News