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The work can be seen as a consecration, but also as a form of dehumanization, that alienates our human condition. Since the emergence of the industry in so-called "developed" countries, many people have dreamed of a humanizing job. However, the evolution of tasks and the speed of change imposed by technologies engulf many workers with anxiety. It becomes difficult for them to reconcile work and family life or civic engagement. Pope Leo XIII already denounced these constraining, competitive and monopolizing factors...

Solidarity is a natural social requirement and represents the link that binds human beings together in mutually supportive relationships. Sometimes this link can break and people find themselves destitute, in difficulty, in loneliness, illness, rupture. To meet these needs, people are involved in charitable organizations, religious or not. Those people and organizations committed to the defense of human rights, for development and against poverty, for justice and peace, work for a culture of life. Christians certa...

During the last decades, the family has undergone some profound mutations in its structure and functions: it has become increasingly sensitive to all changes occurring in society. Consequently, the term family has become more ambiguous and it tends to cover today some different realities than those characteristic to the previous generation. The structure and functionality of the family has a psychosocial character. Doesn't matters the personalities taken in themselves, but their relationship, the interaction betwe...

The social representation of work has been shaped by several factors along the history, each having its importance in relation with the cultural context of each era. In the modern secular society, the justification of work has lost its ethical-religious side to a large extent, but, despite its primarily economic determination, one cannot ignore the psychological aspects. By offering to God his work, the person is associated to the redemptive work of the Christ (by considering the work as dignified by the Christ Hi...

The charity is a genuine expression of humanity and a fundamental element in the achievement of authentic human relationships. The people, the beneficiaries of the divine love and subjects of charity, they are called to make themselves instruments of efficient spreading of God's love. According to the teaching of Jesus, love is the synthesis of the entire Law, the real substance of the personal relationship with God and with the neighbour, it is the principle of human micro-relationships (with friends, family and ...