Blog 17

According to Catholic social teaching, it is frowned upon by God to ignore our less-fortunate neighbors and those who are in need of goods that are necessary for life. It is believed to be that God's gift of Earth serves to provide for all of his children, being everyone who lives on the planet, and not jus those who are fortunate and can afford. God also opposed those who hoard wealth and the fact that wealthy plantation owners in Latin America were succeeding as their workers were nearly starving. People who owned large property were also responsible for being able to provide for those who are in need and being responsive/available to them. No one officially owned anything materialistic since material goods were owned and created by God. Due to this belief, land or property can be taken and given to those who are in need of it even if it was formerly owned. 

In the nineteenth century social catholicism dedicated itself to improving the conditions of labor. To enforce prevailing labor protection, the government has became the answer to it. Doing this has included minimum wage laws and a few other regulations the give rights to workers. Rerum Novarum and the Laboream Exercens are to be two encyclicals are the most extensive treatment of labor issues. Even though they are years apart, they both share one common feature. Which was that they both had the tendecny to move back and forth rather quickly between abstract theological reflection and practical principles of worker justice. Both Leo XIII and John Paul II held an ideal of worker justice.