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Questions Covered:

 

11:30 - I used to be a good Catholic, but after joining the Marines I fell away. How can I make my way back?

21:29 - How do we attain righteousness?

42:23 - Why do Catholics call Mary “Mother of God” and “Mother of the Church?”

50:20 - How much stock should be put into private revelations?

Questions Covered

 

17:09 - My dad was religious and abused me heavily in the name of God when I was a kid. I can’t comprehend how a God could allow that to happen. 

36:25 - What does Tim think of the modernization of the Catholic Church?

47:20 - How were Popes elected before the modern process came to be?

Category: Social Justice Tag: Bible reading, faith, faith and works, social justice

For us as believers the dignity of work comes out of the whole theology of creation. Work is part of human dignity and written in natural law. As the parables of the talents and vineyard illustrate, every human being is created and gifted with special privileges – physical privileges, spiritual privileges, mental privileges, economic privileges, social privileges – precisely in order to use and work in them as God’s hands and feet on behalf of others, to make the world a more just and loving place. 

The economy must serve people, not the other way around. Work is more than a way to make a living; it is a form of continuing participation in Gods creation. If the dignity of work is to be protected, then the basic rights of workers must be respected–the right to productive work, to decent and fair wages, to the organization and joining of unions, to private property, and to economic initiative.

Topics Discussed:

Catholic social justice principle #5, the dignity of work and the rights of workers

Pope Benedict XVI, Charity in Truth (Caritas in Veritate)

Equity vs. equality

Privilege 

Overview:

Minutes 00:12:00 – The dignity of work and theology of creation, the parable of the talents

Minutes 12:01-24:00 – Equality vs. equity, privilege

Minutes 24:01-36:00 – The parable of the vineyard

Minutes 36:01-48:00 – Ways to protect and defend the dignity of work and the rights of workers

Additional Resources:

More on the Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers from the Bible and Church documents 

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Seven Themes of Catholic Social Teaching

Book, Amazon: Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and USCCB

Judy talks about the measureless love of God. We try to measure up to and for God others and ourselves only to feel we have fallen short. May we have the power to grasp how wide, how high, how deep, and how long the measureless love of God is for us!!!

Let's take courage in our fear and not doubt that Jesus will be there for us in ALL of our trials!  And praaaaay!

Catholic author and speaker Shawna Arnold joins Bill Snyder on this episode of Young Catholics Respond.

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