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1 5, 27(87)| AAS 58 (1966), pp. 1055-1056. ~
2 5, 27(90)| Spes, 39: AAS 58 (1966), p. 1057. ~
3 5, 26(51)| Cf. Ps :107(108): 23-30; Wis 14: 2-3
4 5, 26(51)| Cf. Ps :107(108): 23-30; Wis 14: 2-3 a. ~
5 3, 14(23)| AAS 58 (1966), pp. 1089-1090. ~
6 3, 14(22)| see Summa Th., II-II, q. 134, art. 1, ad 3. ~
7 3, 14(24)| Mater et Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), p. 419. ~
8 5, 25(39)| Lumen Gentium, 36: AAS 57 (1965), p. 41. ~
9 1, 1(4) | Redemptor Hominis, 14: AAS 71 (1979), p. 284. ~
10 5, 27 | of the Cross, in the year 1981, the third of the Pontificate. ~
11 3, 14(23)| Anno: AAS 23 (1931), p. 199; Second Vatican Ecumenical
12 2, 9(20)| AAS 23 (1931), pp. 221-222. ~
13 1, 1(4) | Hominis, 14: AAS 71 (1979), p. 284. ~
14 5, 26(48)| Cf. Jer 18:3-4; Sir 38:29-30. ~
15 5, 26(67)| Cf. Mt 13:33; Lk 15:8-9. ~
16 5, 25(39)| the Church Lumen Gentium, 36: AAS 57 (1965), p. 41. ~
17 5, 25(39)| Gentium, 36: AAS 57 (1965), p. 41. ~
18 3, 14(24)| Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), p. 419. ~
19 5, 26(62)| Cf. Mt 24:45; Lk 12:42-48. ~
20 5, 26(47)| Cf. Gen 4:22; Is 44:12. ~
21 5, 26(65)| Cf. Mt 13:45-46. ~
22 5, 26(62)| Cf. Mt 24:45; Lk 12:42-48. ~
23 5, 26(64)| Cf. Mt 13:47-50. ~
24 3, 14(24)| Encyclical Mater et Magistra: AAS 53 (1961), p. 419. ~
25 5, 26(41)| Cf. Mt 13:55. ~
26 5, 25(39)| Church Lumen Gentium, 36: AAS 57 (1965), p. 41. ~
27 3, 15(25)| Cf. Summa Th., II-II, q. 65, a. 2. ~
28 3, 14(22)| see Summa Th., II-II, q. 66, arts. 2 and 6; De Regimine
29 4, 19(26)| Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 67: AAS 58 (1966), p. 1089. ~
30 3, 14(23)| Modern World Gaudium et Spes, 68: AAS 58 (1966), pp. 1089-
31 1, 1(4) | Redemptor Hominis, 14: AAS 71 (1979), p. 284. ~
32 4, 19 | vary with age. Having to abandon these tasks in order to
33 4, 21 | could be cultivated is left abandoned by the owners. Legal titles
34 4, 19 | for their advancement by abandoning what is specific to them
35 3, 12 | truth, which is part of the abiding heritage of the Church's
36 3, 14 | never upheld this right as absolute and untouchable. On the
37 4, 17 | relations. This is not to absolve the direct employer from
38 2, 10 | because each individual absorbs within the family the contents
39 3, 14 | are not dealing only with abstract concepts or "impersonal
40 4, 20 | appropriate legislation. Abuse of the strike weapon can
41 2, 5 | facilitates his work, perfects, accelerates and augments it. It leads
42 5, 27 | redemption in which Christ accepted his Cross for us. In work,
43 2, 8 | and against the unheard-of accompanying exploitation in the field
44 5, 26 | activity is this: that in accord with the divine plan and
45 5, 25 | itself, such human activity accords with God's will. For man,
46 4, 21 | research, technological achievements and State policy have brought
47 4, 17 | as has been said above-in achieving full respect for the worker'
48 5, 25 | things to him who was to be acknowledged as the Lord and Creator
49 3, 12 | The whole of the effort to acquire knowledge with the aim of
50 3, 14 | mentioned above, property is acquired first of all through work
51 1, 3 | key, namely human work, acquires fundamental and decisive
52 3, 14 | and encouraged to take an active part in the life of the
53 4, 18 | direction it is possible to actuate a plan for universal and
54 5, 24 | always a personal action, an actus personae, it follows that
55 4, 20 | particular groups should adapt itself to this system. ~
56 3, 14 | process demands various adaptations in the sphere of the right
57 2, 10 | this way work serves to add to the heritage of the whole
58 4, 21 | dehumanizing living conditions. Added to this are the lack of
59 3, 11 | done by the employees. In addition there were other elements
60 2, 4 | man: she thinks of man and addresses herself to him not only
61 1, 1 | require a reordering and adjustment of the structures of the
62 4, 20 | part in a strike. While admitting that it is a legitimate
63 4, 19 | remuneration for the work of an adult who is responsible for a
64 4, 21 | brought agriculture to a very advanced level, the right to work
65 2, 10 | technological means. This is an advantageous and positive phenomenon,
66 5, 25 | Creator's work, consulting the advantages of their brothers and sisters,
67 4, 22 | limitations and sufferings affecting their bodies and faculties,
68 4, 19 | have for care, love and affection in order that they may develop
69 2, 7 | precisely these fundamental affirmations about work that always emerged
70 2, 10 | It must be remembered and affirmed that the family constitutes
71 4, 21 | received as a gift from God and affirms his "dominion" in the visible
72 3, 14 | have arisen, especially in Africa but elsewhere as well, in
73 1, 3 | truth which can be called ageless.~While in the present document
74 3, 11 | the oldest specialized agency of the United Nations Organization. ~
75 2, 4 | experience, not only with the aid of the many methods of scientific
76 2, 5 | human hands and muscles is aided by more and more highly
77 2, 6 | monotonous even the most alienating work.~
78 1, 1 | by which his body keeps alive but also the bread of science
79 5, 26 | good of the human race, and allow people as individuals and
80 4, 19 | measures such as family allowances or grants to mothers devoting
81 2, 8 | levels of society, have allowed flagrant injustices to persist
82 5, 25 | your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty"30; this is similar to the
83 2, 9 | human work; but they do not alter the fact that work is the
84 | am
85 5, 25 | lives through a monumental amount of individual and collective
86 1, 1 | is not for the Church to analyze scientifically the consequences
87 1, 2 | modern world, studied and analyzed in its various aspects of
88 1, 1 | way and to follow it ever anew in the various aspects in
89 2, 5 | very fact of domesticating animals, rearing them and obtaining
90 5, 27 | power of his Spirit... He animates, purifies, and strengthens
91 2, 8 | precisely one such wide-ranging anomaly that gave rise in the last
92 5, 27 | here that we must seek an answer to these problems so important
93 2, 4 | sciences devoted to man: anthropology, palaeontology, history,
94 5, 27 | all its aspects and never apart from work. ~Is this new
95 1, 3 | and the writings of the Apostles. From the beginning it was
96 5, 26 | work67. He compares the apostolate to the manual work of harvesters68
97 3, 12 | In this way there have appeared not only the simplest instruments
98 4, 17 | of indirect employer is applicable to every society, and in
99 5, 27 | also, at the same time, "appointed Lord by his Resurrection
100 5, 25 | activities in a way which appropriately benefits society. They can
101 3, 12 | collection of means by which man appropriates natural resources and transforms
102 4, 18 | which are unjust and are apt to provoke even violent
103 2, 5 | case not as a capacity or aptitude for work, but rather as
104 2, 4 | express-sometimes in an archaic way of manifesting thought-
105 2, 9 | bears the mark of a bonum arduum, in the terminology of Saint
106 4, 22 | Many practical problems arise at this point, as well as
107 1, 1 | and problems are always arising, there are always fresh
108 3, 14(22)| Summa Th., II-II, q. 134, art. 1, ad 3. ~
109 4, 20 | the mediaeval guilds of artisans, insofar as those organizations
110 5, 26 | pharmacist45, the craftsman or artist46, the blacksmith47-we could
111 4, 18 | collar work and scientific or artistic work, in accordance with
112 3, 14(22)| Summa Th., II-II, q. 66, arts. 2 and 6; De Regimine Principum,
113 4, 19 | respect for their family aspirations and for their specific role
114 3, 13 | conditions man's work; we cannot assert that it constitutes as it
115 3, 12 | production, he must first assimilate cognitively the result of
116 5, 24 | points need to be properly assimilated: an inner effort on the
117 5, 25 | secular activity they must assist one another to live holier
118 4, 19 | work, demand that medical assistance should be easily available
119 3, 14 | that goal could be found by associating labour with the ownership
120 4, 19 | are not in a position to assume proper responsibility for
121 4, 18 | people specifically for assuming to good advantage an appropriate
122 4, 20 | connection workers should be assured the right to strike, without
123 5, 26 | listeners in Nazareth "were astonished, saying, 'Where did this
124 4, 22 | ideas and resources so as to attain this goal that must not
125 4, 21 | societies which have already attained a certain level of development
126 4, 17 | forms of dependence. The attainment of the worker's rights cannot
127 5, 25 | as the words of Christ attest: "My Father is working still ..."32:
128 3, 13 | on the greater immediate attractiveness of what is material. ~The
129 2, 5 | perfects, accelerates and augments it. It leads to an increase
130 4, 17 | complete self-sufficiency or autarky. ~Such a system of mutual
131 1, 1 | changes so as to ensure authentic progress by man and society.~
132 5, 27 | echo of these words, the author of one of the Wisdom books
133 1, 1 | widespread introduction of automation into many spheres of production,
134 3, 14 | be bodies enjoying real autonomy with regard to the public
135 2, 7 | associations and public autorities, and of the emergence of
136 2, 4 | of these texts makes us aware that they express-sometimes
137 3, 11 | Encyclical Rerum Novarum form a background that endows that teaching
138 3, 14 | it may also carry it out badly by claiming for itself a
139 2, 6 | objective significance, barely touching upon the vast range
140 3, 13 | sufficient and definitive bases for thinking about human
141 | became
142 2, 9 | nights at their patients' bedside. It is familiar to women,
143 | begin
144 5, 25 | and collective effort. To believers, this point is settled:
145 2, 4 | stating it at this point-believes in man: she thinks of man
146 Bles | community with those who belong to the same family. And
147 2, 6 | certain aspects that already belonged to the Old Testament, Christianity
148 5, 27 | venerable Brothers and beloved sons and daughters. ~I prepared
149 2, 6 | work at the carpenter's bench. This circumstance constitutes
150 3, 12 | riches of nature: those beneath the ground, those in the
151 4, 21 | and are exploited by the big landowners, without any
152 3, 13 | that time, the time of the birth and rapid development of
153 1, 2 | bodies within the individual Bishops' Conferences. The name of
154 5, 26 | craftsman or artist46, the blacksmith47-we could apply these words
155 2, 9 | to steel-workers at their blast-furnaces, to those who work
156 3, 13 | practical error that struck a blow first and foremost against
157 5, 26 | of the Apostle Paul. Paul boasts of working at his trade (
158 2, 9 | though it bears the mark of a bonum arduum, in the terminology
159 3, 13 | in practical living. The break occurred in such a way that
160 2, 4 | justice and also after the breaking, caused by sin, of the Creator'
161 4, 19 | descriptive purpose; it is not a brief treatise on economics or
162 3, 14 | The historical process briefly presented here has certainly
163 2, 6 | therefore given to slaves. By broadening certain aspects that already
164 5, 26 | scholar50, the sailor51, the builder52, the musician53, the shepherd54,
165 2, 9 | furnaces, to those who work in builders' yards and in construction
166 5, 27 | which from the beginning has burdened man's history on earth84.
167 3, 15 | in a system of excessive bureaucratic centralization, which makes
168 2, 8 | impetuous emergence of a great burst of solidarity between workers,
169 2, 9 | labour in concentration camps, that work can be made into
170 2, 9 | was not withdrawn or cancelled out even when man, having
171 3, 12 | these means (meaning the capability to use them in work), presupposes
172 4, 22 | enterprises and surroundings. ~Careful attention must be devoted
173 5, 27 | Earthly progress must be carefully distinguished from the growth
174 3, 11 | the goal of the struggle carried on by political as well
175 5, 27 | definitively. ~Given at Castel Gandolfo, on the fourteenth
176 3, 12 | the prospect of worldwide catastrophe in the case of a nuclear
177 4, 23 | these circumstances should categorically give way, after special
178 4, 17 | goods. This is one of the causes of an ever increasing disproportion
179 1, 1 | of all humanity.~We are celebrating the ninetieth anniversary
180 2, 7 | concept should also find a central place in the whole sphere
181 3, 13 | practical premises. The only chance there seems to be for radically
182 2, 6 | brought about a fundamental change of ideas in this field,
183 2, 8 | movements but which, in changing social systems and conditions
184 3, 14(22)| Regimine Principum, book 1, chapters 15 and 17. On the social
185 2, 9 | they make it possible to characterize more fully its specific
186 2, 6 | important social problems characterizing whole ages.~The ancient
187 4, 19 | be cheap or even free of charge. Another sector regarding
188 2, 5 | questions are particularly charged with content and tension
189 4, 19 | as possible it should be cheap or even free of charge.
190 2, 5 | agriculture, or the mineral or chemical resources-with man's work,
191 4, 16 | country of which he is a child, and the whole human family
192 2, 6 | belonged to the Old Testament, Christianity brought about a fundamental
193 1, 2 | at the level of the local Churches. It is difficult to list
194 4, 21 | from the countryside to the cities and unfortunately to still
195 4, 16 | individual States for their citizens Respect for this broad range
196 3, 14 | also carry it out badly by claiming for itself a monopoly of
197 2, 8 | solidarity, together with a clearer and more committed realization
198 4, 20 | political parties or have too close links with them. In fact,
199 2, 8 | that must never mean being closed to dialogue and collaboration
200 2, 5 | obtaining from them the food and clothing he needs, and by the fact
201 3, 11 | work and the many labour codes prepared either by the competent
202 2, 5 | of technology as a basic coefficient of economic progress; but,
203 3, 15 | worker feel that he is just a cog in a huge machine moved
204 3, 12 | he must first assimilate cognitively the result of the work of
205 5, 26(77)| Col 3:23-24. ~
206 4, 18 | and States and the need to collaborate in various areas mean that,
207 5, 27 | crucified for us, man in a way collaborates with the Son of God for
208 3, 11 | from private hands to the collectivity, human labour will be preserved
209 3, 11 | practice presupposes the collectivization of the means of production
210 3, 14 | as well, in place of the colonial territories of the past. ~
211 2, 10 | brings it about that man combines his deepest human identity
212 4, 16 | because the Creator has commanded it and because of his own
213 1, 2 | field is the Pontifical Commission Justice and Peace, which
214 4, 20 | sense that the expression is commonly understood today. Unions
215 3, 11 | socialism and, finally, the communist system throughout the world. ~
216 4, 17 | industrial production (the companies referred to as multinational
217 4, 19 | without penalizing her as compared with other women-to devote
218 5, 26 | form of women's work67. He compares the apostolate to the manual
219 4, 23 | placed at a disadvantage in comparison with the other workers in
220 2, 10 | developed together with his compatriots, thus realizing that in
221 5, 25 | peace... Therefore, by their competence in secular fields and by
222 5, 26 | work. They are an important complement to the great though discreet
223 2, 10 | another and are mutually complementary in various points.~It must
224 2, 8 | in countries which have completed a certain process of industrial
225 4, 18 | and local work centres and complexes must be safeguarded, keeping
226 4, 23 | widespread as a result of the complexities of modern life. Man has
227 4, 17 | enormously extensive and complicated. It is determined, in a
228 4, 19 | involves a regular weekly rest comprising at least Sunday, and also
229 3, 12 | factories, laboratories, and computers. Thus everything that is
230 1, 2 | build justice on earth, not concealing thereby unjust structures
231 2, 6 | subdue the earth, we must concentrate our attention on work in
232 1, 2 | Anno the Church's teaching concentrates mainly on the just solution
233 2, 9 | system of forced labour in concentration camps, that work can be
234 5, 25 | the Book of Genesis, which concludes the description of each
235 5, 27 | word of the Gospel. ~In concluding these reflections, I gladly
236 3, 14 | can or cannot be applied concretely, it is clear that recognition
237 1, 1 | rights of those who work, to condemn situations in which that
238 4, 17 | himself in a system thus conditioned, the direct employer fixes
239 3, 11 | systematic class struggle, conducted not only by ideological
240 1, 2 | the individual Bishops' Conferences. The name of this institution
241 2, 4 | existence on earth. She is confirmed in this conviction by considering
242 3, 14 | issue also, recalling and confirming the Church's teaching on
243 2, 10 | and Nation ~Having thus conflrmed the personal dimension of
244 2, 7 | of this type, there is a confusion or even a reversal of the
245 4, 16 | rights as a whole, which are connatural with man, and many of which
246 2, 10 | linked to work and the other consequent on the family nature of
247 4, 16 | of the work contract and, consequently, of just or unjust relationships
248 4, 21 | Agricultural work involves considerable difficulties, including
249 4, 18 | proportions: the fact that, while conspicuous natural resources remain
250 1, 3 | This issue is, in a way, a constant factor both of social life
251 4, 19 | and the employer than that constituted by remuneration for work.
252 4, 18 | must be stressed that the constitutive element in this progress
253 4, 23 | reason the situation of constraint in which the emigrant may
254 2, 9 | in builders' yards and in construction work, often in danger of
255 5, 25 | unfolding the Creator's work, consulting the advantages of their
256 4, 20 | situation they easily lose contact with their specific role,
257 5, 26 | books of the Old Testament contain many references to human
258 3, 11 | the full context of the contemporary situation. ~
259 2, 10 | absorbs within the family the contents and values that go to make
260 4, 21 | restricted to one or other continent, nor limited to the societies
261 4, 18 | their relationships on the continental and world level there is
262 1, 3 | work, as we have seen, has continually been brought up to date
263 2, 8 | this reason, there must be continued study of the subject of
264 4, 17 | and also collective labour contracts and the principles of conduct
265 4, 19 | and of the family when it contradicts or hinders these primary
266 5, 27 | elevation as the image of God is contrasted with the curse that sin
267 5, 27 | death, which the Apostle contrasts with the disobedience which
268 4, 23 | but these efforts, this contribution, are instead offered to
269 4, 17 | other bodies too have fresh contributions to offer on this point in
270 3, 14 | administration and direct control of another group of people,
271 2, 8 | running businesses and in controlling their productivity, and
272 4, 20 | against" others. Even if in controversial questions the struggle takes
273 3, 14 | human rights. Thus, merely converting the means of production
274 3, 15 | expressed the strong and deep convinction that man's work concerns
275 1, 2 | the last ninety years have convulsed many European countries
276 1, 2 | of the Council, the main coordinating centre in this field is
277 4, 18 | question is a just and rational coordination, within the framework of
278 5, 26(73)| a right to their keep: 1 Cor 9:6-14; Gal 6:6; 2 Thess
279 4, 20 | can and should also aim at correcting-with a view to the common
280 3, 12 | discover them and to use them correctly in the productive process.
281 1, 1 | production, the increase in the cost of energy and raw materials,
282 4, 18 | unemployed or under-employed and countless multitudes of people suffering
283 4, 21 | their mass exodus from the countryside to the cities and unfortunately
284 4, 20 | training programmes and courses which have developed and
285 4, 20 | people belonging to the same craft and thus on the basis of
286 5, 25 | power, and that the rational creature exists as a kind of rival
287 4, 19 | It will redound to the credit of society to make it possible
288 2, 8 | dangerous irregularities creep in, and to what extent.~
289 2, 8 | injustice and harm that cried to heaven for vengeance13
290 1, 1 | tensions, conflicts and crises, which, in relationship
291 4, 23 | work relationship, the same criteria should be applied to immigrant
292 4, 18 | employment, precisely at the most critical and socially most important
293 5, 27 | work in union with Christ crucified for us, man in a way collaborates
294 4, 21 | just advancement socially, culturally and economically. ~In many
295 5, 27 | God is contrasted with the curse that sin brought with it: "
296 5, 27 | that sin brought with it: "Cursed is the ground because of
297 4, 22 | to feel that they are not cut off from the working world
298 2, 8 | certain ethically and socially dangerous irregularities creep in,
299 2, 6 | differentiation of people into dasses according to the type of
300 1, 3 | continually been brought up to date while maintaining that Christian
301 2, 8 | Following tlle lines laid dawn by the Encyclical Rerum
302 3, 14(22)| II, q. 66, arts. 2 and 6; De Regimine Principum, book
303 1, 2 | social question must be dealt with in its whole complex
304 Bles | Blessing~Venerable Brothers and Dear Sons and Daughters, ~Greetings
305 4, 18 | plans for action jointly decided on, that is to say, they
306 2, 6 | rational way, capable of deciding about himself, and with
307 1, 1 | question", Leo XIII, of the decisively important Encyclical which
308 3, 11 | evidenced by the international declarations on work and the many labour
309 3, 15 | expressed the strong and deep convinction that man's work
310 5, 24 | man and the world and to deepen their friendship with Christ
311 1, 2 | world today shows in an even deeper and fuller way the meaning
312 4, 20 | whole of society- everything defective in the system of ownership
313 4, 21 | are disregarded or left defenceless against the "land hunger"
314 4, 20 | production. Their task is to defend the existential interests
315 4, 20 | associations for the purpose of defending the vital interests of those
316 3, 14 | namely the position that defends the exclusive right to private
317 4, 18 | employment for all, the agents defined here as "indirect employer"
318 4, 19 | indirect employer is aimed at defining these relationships more
319 5, 27 | have been able to revise it definitively. ~Given at Castel Gandolfo,
320 2, 8 | the reaction against the degradation of man as the subject of
321 2, 9 | human being" and not be degraded by it not only because of
322 2, 8 | called for by the social degrading of the subject of work,
323 2, 8 | increasing number of people with degrees or diplomas in the fields
324 4, 21 | unfortunately to still more dehumanizing living conditions. Added
325 4, 22 | radically unworthy of man, and a denial of our common humanity,
326 4, 19 | matter of highlighting the deontological and moral aspect. The key
327 4, 17 | are ministries or public departments and also various social
328 4, 22 | from the working world or dependent upon society, but that they
329 4, 19 | that is, to the number of dependents for as long as they are
330 2, 8 | specialized, monotonous and depersonalized work in industrial plants,
331 2, 5 | responsibility, when it deprives many workers of their previous
332 2, 10 | the subjective dimension, depriving man of his dignity and inalienable
333 5, 27 | from work understood in depth and in all its aspects and
334 4, 17 | international relationships that derive from it. ~Influence in this
335 3, 13 | the grounds of premises derived from materialist theory,
336 1, 1 | from work, from work it derives its specific dignity, but
337 2, 8 | worker question", sometimes described as "the proletariat question" .
338 4, 19 | not however have a purely descriptive purpose; it is not a brief
339 4, 19 | case, its just functioning, deserve in the final analysis to
340 2, 8 | given that name, in fact deserves it. This can be true of
341 2, 4 | seeks to express the eternal designs and transcendent destiny
342 3, 14 | view, these many deeply desired reforms cannot be achieved
343 3, 15 | that the person who works desires not only due remuneration
344 3, 14 | order, namely, the universal destination of goods and the right to
345 2, 4 | designs and transcendent destiny which the living God, the
346 3, 11 | age, we cannot go into the details, nor is this necessary,
347 4, 17 | extensive and complicated. It is determined, in a sense, by all the
348 5, 25 | extends. ... People are not deterred by the Christian message
349 4, 17 | increasing more and more, to the detriment, obviously, of the poor
350 2, 8 | never mean being closed to dialogue and collaboration with others-
351 3, 11 | with the principle of "the dictatorship of the proletariat", the
352 4, 20 | their work. However, unions differ from the guilds on this
353 4, 18 | less show those disturbing differences which are unjust and are
354 4, 18 | in the vast and socially differentiated world of work. ~As we view
355 3, 13 | word of God, we have no difficulty in accepting this image
356 4, 17 | the poorest ones is not diminishing or being stabilized but
357 2, 8 | of people with degrees or diplomas in the fields of their cultural
358 2, 8 | consideration its objective directions one is forced to admit that
359 4, 23 | should not be placed at a disadvantage in comparison with the other
360 4, 17 | situation in the economically disadvantaged societies. Finding himself
361 2, 8 | work appear but also others disappear. Even if one accepts that
362 2, 7 | of this sort have almost disappeared, and have given way to more
363 4, 18 | can become a real social disaster. It is particularly painful
364 5, 27 | He shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the
365 5, 27 | on a Cross returns to his disciples in the Resurrection with
366 4, 18 | cannot fail to be struck by a disconcerting fact of immense proportions:
367 3, 12 | prepared, ready for him to discover them and to use them correctly
368 2, 4 | technology and especially to discoveries which are decisive for social
369 3, 12 | knowledge with the aim of discovering these riches and specifying
370 5, 26 | complement to the great though discreet gospel of work that we find
371 4, 19 | own nature, without being discriminated against and without being
372 3, 15 | obligation of work. They will be discussed later. But here it must
373 5, 27 | Apostle contrasts with the disobedience which from the beginning
374 4, 17 | causes of an ever increasing disproportion between national incomes.
375 1, 2 | in the whole world. The disproportionate distribution of wealth and
376 4, 21 | cultivated for years are disregarded or left defenceless against
377 4, 16 | indirect, and the worker. ~The distinction between the direct and the
378 Bles | the characteristics that distinguish man from the rest of creatures,
379 5, 27 | progress must be carefully distinguished from the growth of Christ'
380 1, 1 | with the reality of work, disturb the life of individual societies
381 4, 18 | less and less show those disturbing differences which are unjust
382 3, 14 | still taught by the Church, diverges radically from the programme
383 4, 20 | said above, are further divided into groups or subgroups
384 2, 9 | society. It is familiar to doctors and nurses, who spend days
385 3, 14 | production as an untouchable "dogma" of economic life. The principle
386 5, 25(39)| Vatican Ecumenical Council; Dogmatic Constitution on the Church
387 2, 5 | earth by the very fact of domesticating animals, rearing them and
388 4, 17 | rights cannot however be doomed to be merely a result of
389 4, 17 | responsibility, but only to draw attention to the whole network
390 5, 27 | reply to this question also, drawing light from the very sources
391 2, 8 | preparation are accompanied by a drop in demand for their labour.
392 5, 27 | new earth" where justice dwells89? If it is true that the
393 3, 14 | and, especially, in the dynamic structure of the whole economic
394 5, 26(57)| E.g. Jn 10:1-16. ~
395 2, 7 | recognized that the error of early capitalism can be repeated
396 2, 7 | the world not only between East and West but also between
397 4, 17 | means of production). ~It is easy to see that this framework
398 5, 25 | book of Sacred Scripture echoes the same respect for what
399 4, 20 | efforts to instruct and educate the workers and to foster
400 4, 19 | care of her children and educating them in accordance with
401 3, 11 | entirely positive and creative, educational and meritorious character
402 2, 10 | nation-is not only the great "educator" of every man, even though
403 3, 12 | that is to say, for sharing efficiently in the modern production
404 4, 20 | kind of group or class "egoism", although they can and
405 3, 13 | economic theories of the eighteenth century; rather it originated
406 3, 13 | developed from the most elementary and common phase (also called
407 5, 25 | their personal activity, elevated from within by the grace
408 Bles | technology and, above all, to elevating unceasingly the cultural
409 3, 11 | collectivist system into it by eliminating private ownership of the
410 | elsewhere
411 5, 26 | basis of these illuminations emanating from the Source himself,
412 2, 4 | cease to be relevant. They embrace equally the past ages of
413 2, 4 | individual is at the same time embraced by it. Each and every individual,
414 2, 4 | same time, universal: it embraces all human beings, every
415 2, 6 | comes to recognize the pre-eminence of the subjective meaning
416 3, 11 | for the work done by the employees. In addition there were
417 3, 14 | and treated as persons and encouraged to take an active part in
418 5, 26 | In another passage he encourages his readers: "Whatever your
419 4, 20 | should be seen as a normal endeavour "for" the just good: in
420 3, 11 | Novarum form a background that endows that teaching with particular
421 2, 4 | discovered and used for his ends. And so these words, placed
422 5, 27 | and death on a Cross. By enduring the toil of work in union
423 2, 5 | ally and become almost his enemy, as when the mechanization
424 1, 2 | question has not ceased to engage the Church's attention.
425 2, 8 | workers-especially to those engaged in narrowly specialized,
426 3, 11 | the philosophy of Marx and Engels, sees in class struggle
427 2, 9 | is useful or something to enjoy; it is also good as being
428 3, 14 | purposes; they would be bodies enjoying real autonomy with regard
429 4, 18 | International Organizations have an enormous part to play in this area.
430 4, 17 | the indirect employer is enormously extensive and complicated.
431 | enough
432 2, 7 | socioeconomic elements have entered as a consequence of new
433 3, 11 | through love for work. This entirely positive and creative, educational
434 3, 14 | work each person is fully entitled to consider himself a part-
435 4, 19 | overlooked the right to a working environment and to manufacturing processes
436 1, 2 | pronouncements by individual Episcopates, and the activity of the
437 2, 5 | expression in the various epochs of culture and civilization.
438 4, 21 | professional training and of proper equipment, the spread of a certain
439 3, 14 | collectivist system is by no means equivalent to "socializing" that property.
440 2, 5 | beginning of the "industrial era" to the successive phases
441 3, 11 | maximum profit, tried to establish the lowest possible wages
442 1, 2 | years have convulsed many European countries and, at least
443 4, 19 | the final analysis to be evaluated by the way in which man'
444 1, 1 | Encyclical Rerum Novarum on the eve of new developments in technological,
445 3, 11 | In the normal course of events this reality fills human
446 2, 7 | more fully explained below. Everybody knows that capitalism has
447 5, 25 | even "the most ordinary everyday activities. For, while providing
448 1, 2 | the Church's attention. Evidence of this are the many documents
449 3, 11 | include human rights, as is evidenced by the international declarations
450 3, 12 | cause. This principle is an evident truth that emerges from
451 4, 17 | of the poor countries. Evidently this must have an effect
452 4, 18 | themselves be guided by an exact diagnosis of the complex
453 2, 5 | employment, or when, through exalting the machine, it reduces
454 2, 4 | phenomena of "acceleration" exceeds the essential content of
455 2, 9 | physical work under sometimes exceptionally laborious conditions. It
456 3, 15 | certain well founded reasons exceptions can be made to the principle
457 3, 15 | within him in a system of excessive bureaucratic centralization,
458 4, 17 | is to say, in the mutual exchange of economic goods, whether
459 3, 14 | meant for man, one cannot exclude the socialization, in suitable
460 4, 19 | against and without being excluded from jobs for which they
461 3, 14 | position that defends the exclusive right to private ownership
462 4, 19 | mothers devoting themselves exclusively to their families. These
463 | Laborem exercens~
464 3, 14 | owning them, from the fact of exercising power in society manage
465 4, 21 | unremitting and sometimes exhausting physical effort and a lack
466 5, 26 | such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ
467 5, 26 | instructions, in the form of exhortation and command, on the subject
468 2, 8 | forced to admit that there exist many works, many different
469 4, 20 | Their task is to defend the existential interests of workers in
470 4, 21 | phenomenon of their mass exodus from the countryside to
471 5, 27 | himself (cf. Lk 9: 25), the expectation of a new earth must not
472 4, 19 | specific to them and at the expense of the family, in which
473 4, 19 | families play a part here. The expenses involved in health care,
474 2, 9 | known, for it is universally experienced. It is familiar to those
475 2, 4 | do not refer directly and explicitly to work, beyond any doubt
476 2, 9 | various ways it is possible to exploit human labour, that is to
477 4, 17 | instance, in the import and export process, that is to say,
478 2, 7 | century. Since then, explicit expressions of this sort have almost
479 3, 11 | teaching with particular expressiveness and the eloquence of living
480 5, 25 | community responsibility extends. ... People are not deterred
481 2, 4 | universe that man inhabits. By extension, however, it can be understood
482 3, 15 | himself". This awareness is extinguished within him in a system of
483 2, 5 | the fact of being able to extract various natural resources
484 4, 20 | remains, in a sense, an extreme means. It must not be abused;
485 3, 11 | world. ~As we touch on this extremely important field of issues,
486 5, 26(55)| Cf. Ezk 47:10. ~
487 3, 11 | only a theory but a whole fabric of socioeconomic, political,
488 4, 18 | societies and States should also facilitate the discovery of the right
489 2, 5 | undoubtedly man's ally. It facilitates his work, perfects, accelerates
490 3, 12 | complex ones: machines, factories, laboratories, and computers.
491 4, 22 | affecting their bodies and faculties, they point up more clearly
492 5, 25 | in various sectors. "The faithful, therefore", we read in
493 4, 21 | can be infringed when the farm workers are denied the possibility
494 5, 25 | man's power becomes, the farther his individual and community
495 2, 8 | This state of affairs was favoured by the liberal socio-political
496 1, 1 | fresh hopes, but also fresh fears and threats, connected with
497 5, 27 | fourteenth day of September, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross,
498 5, 25 | neglect the welfare of their fellows. They are, rather, more
499 2, 7 | tensions making themselves felt in the world not only between
500 | few