{"id":9710,"date":"2025-09-07T19:30:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/?p=9710"},"modified":"2025-09-07T19:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T01:30:22","slug":"catholic-social-teaching-and-the-work-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/2025\/09\/07\/catholic-social-teaching-and-the-work-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholic Social Teaching and the Work of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The St. Louis Labor Tribune brings us this opinion piece, <a href=\"https:\/\/labortribune.com\/opinion-catholic-social-teaching-and-the-work-of-justice\/\">Catholic Social Teaching and the Work of Justice<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Catholic Social Teaching, rooted in Pope Leo XIII\u2019s landmark 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, challenges us to seek just wages, uphold the right to organize and collectively bargain, and affirm the dignity of every worker. Over time, further papal teachings \u2013Laborem Exercens by Pope St. John Paul II in 1981 and his encyclical Centesimus Annus in 1991, and Pope Francis\u2019s encyclical Fratelli Tutti in 2020 \u2013 have expanded this moral vision to include solidarity, subsidiarity, and a global economy of compassion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"762\" height=\"889\" src=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ADAMELLO_-_PAPA_-_Giovanni_Paolo_II_-_panoramio_cropped.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ADAMELLO_-_PAPA_-_Giovanni_Paolo_II_-_panoramio_cropped.jpg 762w, https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ADAMELLO_-_PAPA_-_Giovanni_Paolo_II_-_panoramio_cropped-257x300.jpg 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 762px) 100vw, 762px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">(Image of Pope John Paul II courtesy of Wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Labor Tribune brings us this opinion piece, Catholic Social Teaching and the Work of Justice&#8230; Catholic Social Teaching, rooted in Pope Leo XIII\u2019s landmark 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum, challenges us to seek just wages, uphold the right to organize and collectively bargain, and affirm the dignity of every worker. Over time, further [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9710\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uawlocal2250.net\/live\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}