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...living wage, the church has consistently called for improvements in the lot of workers. In 1919 the American bishops put forth a Program for Social Reconstruction that urged the establishment of a minimum wage, social security and un employment insurance. Pope John Paul II's 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens decried what he considered the tendency of unregulated capitalism to reduce workers to the status of instruments of production. The bishops' proposed pastoral is actually more conservative than some of John Paul's statements on economics...
...events before December 1981," the Pope continued in a typically euphemistic reference to the Solidarity era, reflected the need to restore moral order and bore "the stamp of religion." Quoting from his 1981 encyclical Laborem exercens (On Human Work), the Pope reaffirmed the church's commitment to free trade unions. Then he said: "It was in this spirit that I spoke in January 1981, during an audience granted to the delegation of Solidarity...
Last week, in his third encyclical, or formal policy-setting letter to the Roman Catholic Church, John Paul underlined those concerns, this time through the theme of human work. He had intended to issue the 24,000-word document, titled Laborem Exercens (On Working), last spring in connection with the 90th anniversary of Pope Leo Kill's encyclical Rerum Novarum, the first Catholic document devoted to social questions. Its release, however, had to await his recovery from the bullet wounds he suffered last May. "It is only after my stay in hospital," he explains...
Orator Publicus noster concoxit nullum finem floridae orationis ad vestros Donnos, quam, ut nos sumus parati deponere, decem ad unum in equalis, illi nunquam capient laborem legere. Prope viam, appellatisne illos homires "Donnos" in America? Nos facimus. Audivimus quoque vos non habere flumen simile nostro, quod est perfecta bestia fluminis, sed unum primae classis. Per Jovem vos estis diabolice fortunati...
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