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1001 3, 11 | the eloquence of living relevance. In this analysis, work
1002 1, 1 | But they can also bring relief and hope to the millions
1003 4, 23 | difference in nationality, religion or race. For even greater
1004 4, 19 | responsible, morally and religiously mature and psychologically
1005 3, 11 | Church's teaching, which has remained unchanged throughout the
1006 2, 9 | Work and Personal Dignity ~Remaining within the context of man
1007 2, 10 | various points.~It must be remembered and affirmed that the family
1008 4, 19 | which man's work is properly remunerated in the system. Here we return
1009 5, 27 | its life more human and to render the whole earth submissive
1010 5, 24 | within the service that she renders to the evangelical message
1011 1, 1 | relevant and constantly demands renewed attention and decisive witness.
1012 1, 1 | and demands will require a reordering and adjustment of the structures
1013 1, 3 | order to gather together and repeat what is already contained
1014 5, 27 | Christ? ~The Council seeks to reply to this question also, drawing
1015 3, 14 | and who own these means or represent the owners. Thus the issue
1016 4, 20 | associations of this type. Representatives of every profession can
1017 2, 5 | development provides grounds for reproposing in new ways the question
1018 5, 25 | the "rest" that the Lord reserves for his servants and friends36. ~
1019 4, 19 | employer) and the worker is resolved on the basis of the wage,
1020 5, 25 | for by the tensions and restlessness of mind and heart. "Far
1021 4, 21 | therefore needed in order to restore to agriculture - and to
1022 4, 21 | our planet, a sector not restricted to one or other continent,
1023 3, 13 | material, as a kind of "resultant" of the economic or production
1024 1, 1 | a time, or the need for retraining. They will very probably
1025 5, 27 | means of death on a Cross returns to his disciples in the
1026 5, 27 | which this toil constitutes reveals a new good springing from
1027 5, 25 | earth"27. ~The word of God's revelation is profoundly marked by
1028 5, 27 | that I have been able to revise it definitively. ~Given
1029 3, 11 | of influence, including revolutionary pressure, to win a monopoly
1030 5, 26 | the inheritance as your reward"77. ~The teachings of the
1031 4, 17 | gap between most of the richest countries and the poorest
1032 1, 1 | subjection, are demanding their rightful place among the nations
1033 5, 25 | creature exists as a kind of rival to the Creator, Christians
1034 5, 27(84)| Cf. Rom 5:19~
1035 1, 1 | the See of Saint Peter in Rome, man "is the primary and
1036 5, 25 | external action; it must leave room for man to prepare himself,
1037 5, 26 | programme, that has its roots in "the gospel of work". ~
1038 2, 8 | Workers can often share in running businesses and in controlling
1039 4, 18 | development of the community sadly frustrated. The obligation
1040 3, 11 | of safety at work and of safeguards regarding the health and
1041 3, 11 | connected with the lack of safety at work and of safeguards
1042 5, 26 | farmer49, the scholar50, the sailor51, the builder52, the musician53,
1043 4, 19 | wage - that is, a single salary given to the head of the
1044 5, 26(54)| Gen 4:2; 37:3; Ex 3:1; 1 Sam 16:11; et passim. ~
1045 4, 20 | subjected to personal penal sanctions for taking part in a strike.
1046 2, 5 | taking away all personal satisfaction and the incentive to creativity
1047 3, 14 | authority may carry out its task satisfactorily from the point of view of
1048 3, 14 | not enough to ensure their satisfactory socialization. They cease
1049 2, 4 | influence and of his striving to satisfy his needs. The expression "
1050 3, 13 | materialism judged capable of satisfying man's needs, not so much
1051 5, 25 | the statement: "And God saw that it was good"31. ~This
1052 5, 26 | Nazareth "were astonished, saying, 'Where did this man get
1053 1, 1 | emergence on the political scene of peoples who, after centuries
1054 5, 26 | potter48, the farmer49, the scholar50, the sailor51, the builder52,
1055 2, 10 | possible by work and the first school of work, within the home,
1056 4, 20 | is due to the work of the schools, what are known as workers'
1057 2, 4 | whole heritage of the many sciences devoted to man: anthropology,
1058 1, 1 | for the Church to analyze scientifically the consequences that these
1059 3, 11 | understood as the ideology of scientiflc socialism and communism,
1060 2, 9 | intellectual workbench; to scientists; to those who bear the burden
1061 2, 8 | limited as a result of the scourge of unemployment, or because
1062 3, 12 | the ground, those in the sea, on land, or in space. He
1063 2, 5 | resources from the earth and the seas. But man "subdues the earth"
1064 4, 23 | permanent emigrant or as a seasonal worker, should not be placed
1065 2, 7 | subject of work - remains on a secondary level. In all cases of this
1066 5, 26 | what we read in the same section of the Council's Pastoral
1067 4, 19 | no more important way for securing a just relationship between
1068 5, 26 | different forms that it takes, seeing in each one of these forms
1069 | seemed
1070 1, 2 | prospect of the terrible self-destruction that emerges from it.~If
1071 2, 6 | and with a tendency to self-realization. As a person, man is therefore
1072 4, 17 | most powerful, of complete self-sufficiency or autarky. ~Such a system
1073 4, 20 | workers and to foster their selfeducation. Praise is due to the work
1074 2, 7 | the industrial worker - sells to the employer, who at
1075 4, 17 | prices for raw materials or semi-manufactured goods. This is one of the
1076 4, 17 | whether raw materials, semimanufactured goods, or finished industrial
1077 4, 16 | While work, in all its many senses, is an obligation, that
1078 5, 27 | on the fourteenth day of September, the Feast of the Triumph
1079 4, 22 | so would be to practise a serious form of discrimination,
1080 5, 26 | the householder61, the servant62, the steward63, the fisherman64,
1081 5, 25 | the Lord reserves for his servants and friends36. ~Awareness
1082 3, 13 | say, man, who should be served by the means, was ignored.
1083 2, 10 | realizing that in this way work serves to add to the heritage of
1084 3, 13 | labour and capital and for setting them up in opposition as
1085 5, 25 | believers, this point is settled: considered in itself, such
1086 4, 19 | the individual's age and sex. It is a fact that in many
1087 1, 1 | today live in conditions of shameful and unworthy poverty.~It
1088 2, 8 | thought out. Workers can often share in running businesses and
1089 3, 14 | of businesses, so-called shareholding by labour, etc. Whether
1090 4, 22 | this goal that must not be shirked: that disabled people may
1091 4, 19 | year or possibly in several shorter periods during the year.
1092 5, 27 | example that we too must shoulder that cross which the world
1093 4, 18 | overall concern weighs on the shoulders of the State, but it cannot
1094 4, 22 | healthy against the weak and sick. Work in the objective sense
1095 4, 21 | families in case of old age, sickness or unemployment. Long days
1096 3, 11 | with the demands of both sides. The Marxist programme,
1097 5, 25 | of the human race are a sign of God's greatness and the
1098 1, 2 | this institution is very significant. It indicates that the social
1099 3, 12 | result of work and bears the signs of human labour. At the
1100 5, 26 | is than for what he has. Similarly, all that people do to obtain
1101 4, 18 | it in another and still simpler way, the right to life and
1102 3, 12 | have appeared not only the simplest instruments for cultivating
1103 2, 10 | In fact, the family is simultaneously a community made possible
1104 4, 18 | find work, and see their sincere wish to work and their readiness
1105 5, 27 | death itself for all of us sinners, taught us by example that
1106 5, 25 | advantages of their brothers and sisters, and contributing by their
1107 5, 25 | work" done by God during "six days"28, "resting" on the
1108 3, 11 | Dimensions of the Conflict ~The sketch of the basic problems of
1109 5, 25 | human labour, technical skill, and civil culture created
1110 1, 1 | Unfortunately, for millions of skilled workers these changes may
1111 2, 5 | man to the status of its slave.~If the biblical words "
1112 2, 6 | and was therefore given to slaves. By broadening certain aspects
1113 4, 17 | systems which on a larger or smaller scale are guided chiefly
1114 2, 8 | favoured by the liberal socio-political system, which, in accordance
1115 2, 4 | palaeontology, history, sociology, psychology and so on; they
1116 | someone
1117 5, 27 | way collaborates with the Son of God for the redemption
1118 2, 7 | but also between North and South. Both John XXIII in the
1119 4, 18 | that, while preserving the sovereign rights of each society and
1120 5, 26 | farmer58, the doctor59, the sower60, the householder61, the
1121 3, 12 | the sea, on land, or in space. He takes all these things
1122 4, 18 | aimed at preparing people specifically for assuming to good advantage
1123 3, 14 | continents. It needs to be specified further from another point
1124 3, 12 | discovering these riches and specifying the various ways in which
1125 4, 21 | are social outcasts and of speeding up the phenomenon of their
1126 5, 27 | done and the toil I had spent in doing it"83. There is
1127 3, 11 | professes to act as the spokesman for the working class and
1128 4, 19 | family without the other spouse having to take up gainful
1129 4, 21 | of proper equipment, the spread of a certain individualism,
1130 3, 14 | taking place and indeed is spreading in the relationships between
1131 4, 17 | not diminishing or being stabilized but is increasing more and
1132 4, 19 | mature and psychologically stable persons. It will redound
1133 3, 12 | already indicated as my starting point, is the guiding thread
1134 3, 13 | place, if people's thinking starts from the same theoretical
1135 2, 5 | machine, it reduces man to the status of its slave.~If the biblical
1136 5, 27 | but it is only after my stay in hospital that I have
1137 2, 9 | in mines and quarries, to steel - workers at their blast -
1138 5, 26 | householder61, the servant62, the steward63, the fisherman64, the
1139 5, 27 | must not weaken but rather stimulate our concern for cultivating
1140 2, 8 | which in the last century stimulated unity between workers for
1141 2, 7 | and in a certain sense a stimulus for doing so, is provided
1142 4, 20 | members is the strike or work stoppage, as a kind of ultimatum
1143 2, 8 | economistic" premises, strengthened and safeguarded economic
1144 5, 27 | animates, purifies, and strengthens those noble longings too,
1145 4, 18 | Populorum Progressio. It must be stressed that the constitutive element
1146 3, 14 | social question as its theme, stresses this issue also, recalling
1147 3, 12 | concept of capital in the strict sense is only a collection
1148 3, 13 | of person over things is strictly preserved, was broken up
1149 5, 25 | They are, rather, more stringently bound to do these very things"38. ~
1150 3, 14 | striven and continues to strive always to ensure the priority
1151 3, 14 | the Church's teaching has striven and continues to strive
1152 5, 27 | by which the human family strives to make its life more human
1153 2, 4 | man's influence and of his striving to satisfy his needs. The
1154 3, 11 | reality fills human life and strongly affects its value and meaning.
1155 4, 19 | requires that labour should be structured in such a way that women
1156 4, 20 | character of political parties struggling for power; they should not
1157 1, 2 | man in the modern world, studied and analyzed in its various
1158 1, 2 | Terris. However, if one studies the development of the question
1159 4, 20 | further divided into groups or subgroups according to particular
1160 2, 9 | over the visible world, by "subjecting" the earth. Toil is something
1161 3, 12 | advance, when man, who is the subjectof work, wishes to make use
1162 5, 27 | to render the whole earth submissive to this goal"87. ~The Christian
1163 3, 12 | are only a mere instrument subordinate to human labour. ~This truth,
1164 2, 5 | worker question and the subsequent industrial and post-industrial
1165 3, 13 | above: the principle of the substantial and real priority of labour,
1166 4, 17 | responsibility: the indirect employer substantially determines one or other
1167 4, 16 | will come after him in the succession of history. All this constitutes
1168 4, 22 | spite of the limitations and sufferings affecting their bodies and
1169 4, 19 | remuneration which will suffice for establishing and properly
1170 4, 22 | offering them ordinary or suitably adapted jobs, and in what
1171 4, 22 | given a productive activity suited to them. Many practical
1172 4, 19 | rest comprising at least Sunday, and also a longer period
1173 3, 13 | reduce spiritual reality to a superfluous phenomenon) to the phase
1174 3, 13 | conviction of the primacy and superiority of the material, and directly
1175 2, 5 | that "works" and man merely supervises it, making it function and
1176 2, 5 | the mechanization of work "supplants" him, taking away all personal
1177 5, 26 | For these advances can supply the material for human progress,
1178 3, 13 | irrefutable confirmation and support. In dialectical materialism
1179 2, 7 | economistic thought.~For certain supporters of such ideas, work was
1180 1, 2 | of the documents of the supreme Magisterium of the Church,
1181 4, 22 | protected" enterprises and surroundings. ~Careful attention must
1182 4, 21 | goods it needs for its daily sustenance, is of fundamental importance.
1183 3, 11 | one marked and in a sense symbolized by the publication of the
1184 3, 12 | in a sense are considered synonymous with "capital" - is the
1185 5, 25 | works produced by man's own talent and energy are in opposition
1186 2, 6 | that the primary basis of tbe value of work is man himself,
1187 5, 26 | as your reward"77. ~The teachings of the Apostle of the Gentiles
1188 2, 5 | development through new technologies, such as the electronics
1189 2, 5 | miniaturization, communications and telecommunications and so forth, shows how
1190 2, 6 | with the word of the Bible telling man that he is to subdue
1191 2, 6 | about himself, and with a tendency to self-realization. As
1192 2, 8 | plants, when the machine tends to dominate man - was important
1193 2, 5 | charged with content and tension of an ethical and an ethical
1194 5, 26 | trade (he was probably a tent-maker)71, and thanks to that work
1195 2, 9 | of a bonum arduum, in the terminology of Saint Thomas18, this
1196 1, 2 | and the prospect of the terrible self-destruction that emerges
1197 3, 14 | in place of the colonial territories of the past. ~Therefore,
1198 4, 18 | produce its fruit in man. A test of this progress will be
1199 5, 26 | understood only as the fruit of a tested spirituality of human work;
1200 5, 24 | important components of its texture. ~The Church considers it
1201 3, 14 | well-known arguments of the Summa Theologiae of Saint Thomas Aquinas22. ~
1202 3, 13 | is humanistic as well as theological. In it man is the master
1203 3, 13 | philosophy and economic theories of the eighteenth century;
1204 5, 26 | living", he writes to the Thessalonians74. In fact, noting that
1205 4, 16 | correspond to this obligation, we think in the first place of the
1206 2, 4 | point - believes in man: she thinks of man and addresses herself
1207 2, 9 | sometimes "bears thorns and thistles"17, but also to those who
1208 2, 9 | which sometimes "bears thorns and thistles"17, but also
1209 3, 12 | starting point, is the guiding thread of this document, and will
1210 1, 1 | but also fresh fears and threats, connected with this basic
1211 2, 10 | living in the world.~These three spheres are always important
1212 5, 24 | living participation in his threefold mission as Priest, Prophet
1213 5, 27 | face you shall eat bread till you return to the ground,
1214 4, 21 | abandoned by the owners. Legal titles to possession of a small
1215 2, 8 | great solidarity.~Following tlle lines laid dawn by the Encyclical
1216 4, 21 | cultivates the earth by toiling in the fields. This is a
1217 1, 3 | intention of touching on all the topics that concern it - this is
1218 5, 26 | society to pursue their total vocation and fulfil it"79. ~
1219 5, 25 | to relate himself and the totality of things to him who was
1220 2, 4 | and at the same time they trace out the main lines of his
1221 1, 3 | the different ages. This traditional patrimony was then inherited
1222 2, 4 | the eternal designs and transcendent destiny which the living
1223 3, 11 | production so that,through the transfer of these means from private
1224 2, 5 | cultivate it and then to transform its products, adapting them
1225 2, 5 | agriculture we are witnessing the transformations made possible by the gradual
1226 2, 4 | universe.~Work understood as a "transitive" activity, that is to say
1227 4, 18 | by means of the necessary treaties and agreements. Here too
1228 2, 7 | Nevertheless, the danger of treating work as a special kind of "
1229 4, 19 | purpose; it is not a brief treatise on economics or politics.
1230 1, 2 | Populorum Progressio.~This trend of development of the Church'
1231 2, 7 | had to oppose the various trends of materialistic and economistic
1232 5, 27 | September, the Feast of the Triumph of the Cross, in the year
1233 5, 25 | Christians are convinced that the triumphs of the human race are a
1234 4, 17 | for their products, while trying at the same time to fix
1235 1, 2 | in the modern world. This twofold commitment is certainly
1236 2, 8 | not oriented towards the types of employment or service
1237 2, 6 | world introduced its own typical differentiation of people
1238 4, 20 | work stoppage, as a kind of ultimatum to the competent bodies,
1239 3, 14 | capitalism continues to remain unacceptable, namely the position that
1240 1, 1 | same time work contains the unceasing measure of human toil and
1241 3, 11 | teaching, which has remained unchanged throughout the centuries
1242 4, 18 | people who are unemployed or under-employed and countless multitudes
1243 4, 19 | system where ownership has undergone a certain "socialization",
1244 5, 25 | most profound motive for undertaking it in various sectors. "
1245 1, 2 | s teaching and the many undertakings connected with her apostolic
1246 5, 26 | of the life of Christ is unequivocal: he belongs to the "working
1247 5, 25 | by their labour they are unfolding the Creator's work, consulting
1248 2, 8 | of work, and against the unheard - of accompanying exploitation
1249 3, 12 | which would have almost unimaginable possibilities of destruction.
1250 5, 25 | because man alone has the unique characteristic of likeness
1251 4, 20 | their work needs that people unite to secure their rights,
1252 4, 20 | that it first and foremost unites people. In this consists
1253 5, 27 | word of the living God, uniting work with prayer, know the
1254 2, 8 | last century stimulated unity between workers for particular
1255 2, 5 | Objective Sense: Technology~This universality and, at the same time, this
1256 4, 20 | as workers' or people's universities and the training programmes
1257 2, 4 | part they are still almost unknown to man and hidden from him.~
1258 4, 21 | difficulties, including unremitting and sometimes exhausting
1259 2, 8 | one single thing (one and unrepeatable every time), yet when one
1260 | unto
1261 4, 18 | natural resources remain unused, there are huge numbers
1262 2, 9 | for their homes and the upbringing of their children. It is
1263 3, 14 | Christian tradition has never upheld this right as absolute and
1264 2, 10 | making family life and its upkeep possible, and the other
1265 2, 10 | of work does not gain the upper hand over the subjective
1266 4, 21 | many situations radical and urgent changes are therefore needed
1267 2, 5 | of instruments which man uses in his work, technology
1268 | using
1269 4, 22 | such people both in the usual public or private enterprises,
1270 5 | V. ELEMENTS FOR A SPIRITUALITY
1271 4, 19 | rest, namely the holiday or vacation taken once a year or possibly
1272 2, 8 | education in itself is always valuable and an important enrichment
1273 3, 13 | seen was the possibility of vastly increasing material wealth,
1274 2, 8 | that cried to heaven for vengeance13 and that weighed heavily
1275 4, 18 | the most adequate way to verify it in a spirit of justice
1276 4, 19 | is the concrete means of verifying the justice of the whole
1277 4, 20 | like a system of "connected vessels", and every social activity
1278 3, 13 | as two production factors viewed in the above mentioned economistic
1279 5, 24 | speak out on work from the viewpoint of its human value and of
1280 5, 25 | of Christ, let them work vigorously so that by human labour,
1281 5, 26 | says: "My Father is the vinedresser"43, and in various ways
1282 1, 1 | dignity and those rights are violated, and to help to guide the
1283 2, 8 | appear as a result of the violation of the dignity of human
1284 4, 18 | are apt to provoke even violent reactions. The International
1285 4, 20 | protect their just rights vis-a-vis the entrepreneurs and the
1286 5, 26 | and fulfil it"79. ~Such a vision of the values of human work,
1287 5, 27 | Therefore, while we are warned that it profits a man nothing
1288 1, 2 | experience of the two great world wars which in the course of the
1289 4, 22 | and healthy against the weak and sick. Work in the objective
1290 5, 27 | of a new earth must not weaken but rather stimulate our
1291 4, 20 | legislation. Abuse of the strike weapon can lead to the paralysis
1292 2, 9 | not only because of the wearing out of his physical strength (
1293 4, 19 | this involves a regular weekly rest comprising at least
1294 4, 18 | analysis this overall concern weighs on the shoulders of the
1295 1, 1 | rapid increase in material well-being for the more developed countries.
1296 3, 14 | tradition, for example, the well-known arguments of the Summa Theologiae
1297 3, 13 | categories of economism went hand in hand with the formation
1298 2, 7 | not only between East and West but also between North and
1299 | whenever
1300 | wherever
1301 1, 2 | period the Church's teaching widens its horizon to take in the
1302 3, 11 | revolutionary pressure, to win a monopoly of power in each
1303 5, 26(51)| Cf. Ps :107(108): 23-30; Wis 14: 2-3 a~
1304 5, 25 | resting, since God himself wished to present his own creative
1305 2, 9 | his likeness15, was not withdrawn or cancelled out even when
1306 2, 5 | also in agriculture we are witnessing the transformations made
1307 2, 7 | production (the expression "workforce" is in fact in common use)
1308 5, 26 | relationships has greater worth than technical advances.
1309 2, 9 | good as being something worthy, that is to say, something
1310 5, 26 | earn their own living", he writes to the Thessalonians74.
1311 1, 3 | especially in the Gospel and the writings of the Apostles. From the
1312 2, 9 | those who work in builders' yards and in construction work,
1313 4, 18 | when it especially affects young people, who after appropriate
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