[T]here are always fresh hopes, but also fresh fears and threats, connected with this basic dimension of human existence: man’s life is built up every day from work, from work it derives its specific ...

As we begin Lent, one of the signs of our time is unrelenting attacks on Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), who upset the former Queens Democratic party boss Joe Crowley after he had served ...

This year marks the 40th anniversary of two great works by Pope St. John Paul II. Written by the Holy Father in 1981, Laborem Exercens and Familiaris Consortio offer many timely lessons for 2021.

Labor has long been a central concern of Catholic social teaching. Starting with Rerum Novarum, the seminal encyclical of Catholic social teaching issued by Pope Leo XIII in 1891, through the current ...

Sept. 14 was the 30th anniversary of Laborem Exercens (On Human Work) by Blessed John Paul II. The 1981 encyclical marked 90 years since Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, which started the Church’s ...

In his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II wrote that “labor should be structured in such a way that women do not have to pay for their advancement by abandoning what is specific to ...

Church leaders and workers nationwide will gather in Cebu City for a national conference from Sept. 12 to 15. It will be held in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Blessed John Paul II’s ...