In this episode, Father Roger J. Landry, a priest of the Diocese of Fall River, Massachusetts, and Catholic Chaplain to Columbia University in New York City sits down with Sarah Negri, Research Project Coordinator at the Acton Institute, to discuss the social teaching of Pope John Paul II and especially his emphasis on the vocation of the Christian entrepreneur. Father Landry shares some history on John Paul II’s three most famous social encyclicals and elucidates their importance for the ordinary Christian worker. The discussion centers around the Christian vocation to work as a divine injunction, the subjective and objective elements of work, and how the Christian worker imitates both God as creator and Christ as the perfect human model of holy labor. It also touches on the challenges faced by the human worker, including the possibility of alienation, workaholisim, and the toil that accompanies hard labor, as well as solutions to these challenges.

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The Entrepreneurial Vocation (recorded lecture) – Acton University 2023

The Social Teaching of John Paul II (recorded lecture) – Acton University 2023

Laborem Exercens by Pope John Paul II

Sollicitudo Rei Socialis by Pope John Paul II

Centesimus Annus by Pope John Paul II 

The Entrepreneurial Vocation by Fr. Robert Sirico