Luke 24, 41-45 +
CSDC and CV
CV 64c The protection of these workers,
partly achieved through appropriate initiatives aimed at their countries of
origin, will enable trade unions to demonstrate the authentic ethical and
cultural motivations that made it possible for them, in a different social and
labour context, to play a decisive role in development. The Church's
traditional teaching makes a valid distinction between the respective roles and
functions of trade unions and politics. This distinction allows unions to
identify civil society as the proper setting for their necessary activity of
defending and promoting labour, especially on behalf of exploited and
unrepresented workers, whose woeful condition is often ignored by the
distracted eye of society.
Alongside traditional artisans there emerge new businesses
CDS 315 The decentralization of production, which assigns to
smaller companies several tasks previously undertaken by larger production
interests, gives vitality and new energy to the area of small and medium-sized
businesses. In this way, alongside traditional artisans there emerge new
businesses characterized by small production interests at work in modern
production sectors or in decentralized activities of larger companies. Many
activities that yesterday required the hiring of employees are today carried
out in new ways that encourage independent labour and are therefore marked by
higher risk and greater responsibility. Work in small and medium-sized
businesses, the work of artisans and independent work can represent an occasion
to make the actual work experience more human, both in terms of the possibility
of establishing positive personal relationships in smaller-sized communities
and in terms of the opportunities for greater initiative and industriousness.
In these sectors, however, there are more than just a few cases of unjust
treatment, of poorly paid and, above all, uncertain work.
(Luke 24,41-45) These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still
with you
[41] While they were still incredulous for joy and were
amazed, he asked them, "Have you anything here to eat?" [42] They
gave him a piece of baked fish; [43] he took it and ate it in front of them.
[44] He said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was
still with you, that everything written about me in the law of Moses and in the
prophets and psalms must be fulfilled." [45] Then he opened their minds to
understand the scriptures.
CDS 57 The good things — such as human dignity, brotherhood
and freedom, all the good fruits of nature and of human enterprise — that in
the Lord's Spirit and according to his command have spread throughout the
earth, having been purified of every stain, illuminated and transfigured,
belong to the Kingdom of truth and life, of holiness and grace, of justice, of
love and of peace that Christ will present to the Father, and it is there that
we shall once again find them. The words of Christ in their solemn truth
will then resound for all people: “Come, O blessed of my Father, inherit the
kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and
you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you
welcomed me, I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I
was in prison and you came to me ... as you did it to one of the least of my
brethren, you did it to me” (Mt 25:34-36,40).
[Initials
and Abbreviations.- CSDC:
Pontifical Council for Justice And Peace, Compendium of the Social
Doctrine of the Church; - SDC:
Social Doctrine of the Church; - CV: Benedict
XVI, Caritas in Veritate (Charity
in truth)]
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