{"id":42388,"date":"2014-02-02T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-02T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a_statement_from_the_r-_catholic_bishops_of_maryland_the_dignity_of_work\/"},"modified":"2014-02-02T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T16:15:58","slug":"a_statement_from_the_r-_catholic_bishops_of_maryland_the_dignity_of_work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42388","title":{"rendered":"A Statement from the R. Catholic Bishops of Maryland: The Dignity of Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the history of the social teachings of the Church, the right of all people to fair compensation for their labor has been upheld as an essential element of a just society. As early as the late 19th century, Pope Leo XIII recognized the principle that workers should be paid a wage<br \/>\nsufficient to support a family as\u201ca dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient than any bargain between man and man.&#8221; [Rerum Novarum]<br \/>\nAs Pope Francis continues to captivate the world through his powerful challenges to care for the least am ong us, he frequently echoes his<br \/>\npredecessors in highlighting the importance of providing opportunities for meaningful work as a path out of poverty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdcathcon.org\/library\/resources\/documents\/statements\/14-dignityofworkbishopsstatement.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout the history of the social teachings of the Church, the right of all people to fair compensation for their labor has been upheld as an essential element of a just society. As early as the late 19th century, Pope<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42388\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,175,168,154,364,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}