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7 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching: 5-The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers

Posted on May 27, 2024May 27, 2024 by Vanessa Crescio

“Human labor must be honored not because it is labor, but because it is human” Anthony Elson (Reclaiming Catholic Social Teaching, 141). Thus far we have examined four of the seven themes of Catholic Social Teaching and discovered that each t...
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7 Principle of Catholic Social Teaching: 4-Preferential Option for the Poor & Vulnerable

Posted on September 16, 2023November 3, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, a stranger and you welcomed me, naked and you clothed me…” (Matthew 25:35-36) In the previous reflection on the third theme of Catholic Social Teaching, we delved in...
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Usury and a Christian Response to Debt

Posted on July 20, 2023August 8, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“And that uncleanly image of deceit Came up and thrust ashore its head and bust, But on the border did not drag its tail. The face was as the face of a just man, Its semblance outwardly was so benign, And of a serpent all th...
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7 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching: 2-Call to Family, Community, & Participation

Posted on July 12, 2023August 2, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“The family is the basic cell of society. It is the cradle of life and love, the place in which the individual ‘is born’ and ‘grows’” (Pope St. John Paul II, “Christifideles Laici”). In our first installment of this seven-part series on Catho...
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7 Principles of Catholic Social Teaching: 1-Life & Dignity of the Human Person

Posted on June 20, 2023July 19, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“The glory of God is the human person fully alive; and the glory of the human person consists in beholding God” (St. Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, 4.20) In his October 16, 2021 address to The World Meeting of Popular Movements, Pope Fr...
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Fear of the Lord: The Path to Perfect Love

Posted on May 25, 2023June 11, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear” 1 John 4:18 In the first episode of the Chosen, Jesus finds Mary Magdalene in a dark and filthy bar in the Red Quarter. She demands the bartender serve her a drink, “lots of it”, an...
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A Time to Give Birth and a Time to Die: Goal-Setting with Heaven in Mind

Posted on December 12, 2022December 26, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under the heavens. A time to give birth and a time to die…God has made everything appropriate to its time, but has put the timeless into their hearts” Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 ...
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December 22: O King of the Nations

Posted on December 10, 2022January 7, 2023 by Vanessa Crescio

O King of all the nations, the only joy of every human heart; O Keystone of the mighty arch of man, come and save the creature you fashioned from the dust (Christian Prayer, 133). https://youtu.be/Z78FrWt9tsQ
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December 19: O Root of Jesse

Posted on December 10, 2022December 23, 2022 by Vanessa Crescio

O flower of Jesse’s stem, you have been raised up as a sign for all peoples; kings stand silent in your presence; the nations bow down in Worship before you. Come, let nothing keep you from coming to our aid (Christian Prayer, 124). In this r...
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