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		Laborem Exercens: The Liberal Legacy of John Paul II Last week, as I watched conservative politicians and pundits try to wrap themselves in the mantle of the late pope, I found myself wondering how many of them had read his 1981 encyclical Laborem Exercens.
		Laborem Exercens (my high school Latin is rusty, but I translate the title to mean Working) revisits “the social question,” which Pope Leo XIII had raised 90 years before in the encyclical Rerum Novarum (literally Of New Things).
		Laborem Exercens’ primary distinction is between the objective dimension of work (in which the focus is on the goods being produced, and the worker is merely one of the many factors of production) and its subjective dimension (as one of the fundamental experiences of human life).
	www.gurus.com /dougdeb/politics/laborem.html (2879 words)

	Catholic Media Report
		When we celebrate the anniversary of "Laborem Exercens" we are celebrating also the anniversary of "Rerum Novarum" and of that series of great social encyclicals which have been written to commemorate the groundbreaking encyclical of Leo XIII which gave rise to the modern era of Catholic social teaching.
		The context in which "Laborem Exercens" was written then was that of the emerging crisis of the Communist systems in Central and Eastern Europe and the foresight of Pope John Paul II who more than most understood just how that system had failed to recognize the dignity of work.
		"Laborem Exercens" notes that "Man has to subdue the earth and dominate it, because as the 'image of God' he is a person, that is to say, a subjective being capable of acting in a planned and rational way, capable of deciding about himself, and with a tendency to self-realization.
	www.catholicmediareport.org /story.php?story_id=2101 (700 words)

	Catholic Social Teaching
		Pope John Paul intended to issue Laborem Exercens on May 15, 1981, the ninetieth anniversary of Rerum Novarum, but because of the attempt on his life on May 13, he was not able to revise it until after he left the hospital, and it was not issued until September 14 of that year.
		Laborem Exercens is a sustained reflection on the meaning of human work, which John Paul considers to be “a key, probably the essential key, to the whole social question...” (no. 3).
		John Paul II brings Laborem Exercens to a close with some reflections on the spirituality of work.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Faith/1998-03-04/social.html (2515 words)

	The Work Place: The Vatican as a friend of labor
		But the church also criticizes pure socialism, which it says does not guarantee that assets will be used wisely and in the interests of workers because the state itself becomes a new oligarchy.
		Laborem Exercens, which runs to about 50 pages, is worth analyzing because it is the most explicit and comprehensive document produced by the church on work in recent years.
		In Laborem Exercens, John Paul criticized damaging the environment, saying the earth was being "intolerably polluted."
	www.iht.com /articles/2005/04/26/business/workcol27.php (718 words)

	Zenit News Agency - The World Seen From Rome
		In fostering a broader understanding of the relationship between work and the human person, "Laborem Exercens" stressed the relationship between work and the family.
		My rather disordered reflections on this anniversary of the encyclical "Laborem Exercens" have led me to stress -- perhaps with too much optimism -- that the nature of a modern economy may provide new openings for dialogue between Christian social reflection and the world of work and the economy today.
		We should not overlook the fact that "Laborem Exercens" looks on human work not just as the work of an isolated individual.
	www.zenit.org /english/visualizza.phtml?sid=96119 (4155 words)

	Catholic Leader online
		Laborem Exercens marked the 90th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.
		Laborem Exercens is therefore above all a phenomenology of human work.
		Laborem Exercens is part of the living tradition of Catholic social teaching.
	catholicleader.com.au /index.php?id=3245 (985 words)

	The last socialist? - Pope John Paul II; includes related article National Review - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is a striking document in that it identifies as the principal source of conflict in the modern world the conflict between capital and Labor.
		The vision suggested by Laborem Exercens is a sort of ideal corporatism, in which the central planning of the economy by modern government is counterbalanced by democratic self-management within the enterprise.
		It is not hard to see in this conception an echo of the struggles of Solidarity in Poland, at the height of which the union represented itself as an alternative institution for organizing the entire national economy.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n12_v41/ai_7689737/pg_3 (599 words)

	Labor 4
		On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the first social encyclical Rerum Novarum (1891), Pope John Paul II published Laborem Exercens (On Human Work, 1981).
		Laborem Exercens approached the social question within a single overarching vision ---the theology of work as the key to the social question.
		In the light of the resurrection of Christ, men and women in their earthly tasks can discover “a glimmer of new life, of the new good, as if it were an announcement of the 'the new heavens and the new earth (2 Pet.
	www.ccky.org /Resources/Ketteler/Ketteler_Labor_4.htm (1086 words)

	Migrant farm workers: Laborem Exercens … in Canada Catholic New Times - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Migrant farm workers: Laborem Exercens … in Canada
		In the other, the Martin government at home sets up barriers to the most marginalized group of workers in Canadian society--migrant farm workers--in their attempt to achieve the protections and benefits of other Canadian workers in the courts.
		In Laborem Exercens, John Paul II refers to unions "as indispensable elements of social life," serving as a "mouthpiece for the struggle for social justice."
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0MKY/is_8_29/ai_n13810129 (908 words)

	Karol Wojtyla Bibliography
		The Priority of Labor: A Commentary on Laborem Exercens: Encyclical Letter of Pope John Paul II.
		Arbeit vor Kapital: Kommentar zur Enzyklika Laborem Exercens von Johannes Paul II.
		"Laborem Exercens Within the Context of the Church's Commitment to the Work of Peace and Justice." Rerum Novarum Laborem Exercens 2000: Symposium (1982): 179.
	campus.udayton.edu /mary/resources/jp09.html (2092 words)

	Review Essay: Challenging the Modern World: John Paul II/Karol Wojtyla and the Development of Catholic Social Teaching (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In The Priority of Labor, Gregory Baum takes up a study of John Paul II's Laborem Exercens by claiming that Wojtyla was extending a dialogue between Polish Catholics and Marxists.
		In contrast, John Finnis argues in his 1982 essay, "The Fundamental Themes of Laborem Exercens," that to make sense of the encyclical, it is best to see it as an extension of the statements from Gaudium et Spes on human activity.
		The vocabulary of Laborem, with its description of both the objective and subjective character of human action, might look like a straightforward introduction of a new phenomenological vocabulary taken from The Acting Person and used to make sense of work as a human activity.
	www.acton.org /publicat/m_and_m/2001_fall/beabout2.html (2910 words)

	Laborem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		In his encyclical Laborem Exercens, does Pope John Paul II intend to set forth an entirely new teaching, or does he mean to follow in an organic line of development the prior teaching of the Church?
		Consider the following quotation from the encyclical: "This trend in the development of the church's teaching and commitment in the social question exactly corresponds to the objective recognition of the state of affairs." Analyze this statement in terms of, first, the context of the encyclical, and second, the themes of this course.
		Although it is true, admits the Pope, that all men are called to work, what "very important conclusion of an ethical nature" does he lay down by which one rightly comes to recognize the pre-eminence of the subjective meaning of work over the objective one?
	www.stthom.edu /smith/ethics_law/Laborem_Exercens.html (329 words)

	labor day statement
		In 1981, Pope John Paul II wrote his encyclical, "Laborem exercens," in celebration of the earlier treatise on the value of work, "Rerum Novarum," by Pope Leo XIII.
		It is in honor of his still recent passing and the timeliness of his foundational writings on the dignity of work that I particularly draw upon "Laborem exercens" as a guiding source for observing Labor Day 2005.
		Let us prepare to celebrate the 25th anniversary of John Paul II’s foundational encyclical in 2006, by recommitting ourselves this year to the "gospel of work" and the dignity of each worker toiling in the vineyard of God’s Kingdom.
	www.catholicherald.com /loverde/2005homilies/column0901.htm (259 words)

	Inserts: Working and Living in Ontario
		John Paul II has said "human work is a key, probably the essential key, to the whole social question" (Laborem Exercens, No. 3).
		From this principle it follows that the economy must be developed in the service of people rather than people being conceived as having to live their lives at the dictate of economic forces.
		They learn much, they cultivate their resources, they go outside of themselves and beyond themselves.
	www.occb.on.ca /english/inserts.html (849 words)

	Catholic Social Teaching: John Paul II, Laborem Exercens
		As we examine the main points of his reflections we will be able to see more clearly his insights into the meaning of the Church’s social doctrine.
		Catholic Social Teaching: John Paul II, Laborem Exercens.” The Catholic Faith 4, no. 2 (March/April 1998): 39-44.
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	catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0286.html (2841 words)

	U.S. Catholic Bishops - Social Development & World Peace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		wo decades ago, Pope John Paul II issued the encyclical Laborem Exercens.
		The moral measure of any economy is not simply the information shared, the wealth created, the trade encouraged, but how the lives and dignity of the poor and vulnerable, the hungry and destitute are protected and promoted.
		We ought to hear and heed it as we celebrate the first Labor Day of this new millennium.
	www.usccb.org /sdwp/laborday2001.htm (949 words)

	Laborem Exercens: Encyclical Letter on Human Work - Price Comparison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
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	Pope John Paul II - Laborem Exercens - On Human Work - 14 September 1981 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Pope John Paul II - Laborem Exercens - On Human Work - 14 September 1981
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	Catholic Culture : Document Library : Laborem Exercens (On Human Work)
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		Hence his instructions, in the form of exhortation and command, on the subject of work: "Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to do their work in quietness and to earn their own living," he writes to
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