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The issue of migration is a highly topical issue with major human implications, which generates many ethical and ecclesiastical issues related to human dignity, social justice, respect for human rights, solidarity in front of the risks of poverty, fragility, vulnerability, violence, injustice, exploitation and instrumentalization of the person, as well as the need to promote fair and consistent policies. According to the United Nations Reports, there are more than 250 million migrants worldwide, of which 25.4 mill...

The unprecedented scale of the migrant crisis is appalling. It upsets us and urges us to act. Every day, desperate people tent to cross the boundaries of indifference. For specific situations, they are called refugees. Treated often as a simple problem, it is our brothers and sisters, fragile human beings who need help, and this is urgently. On a global scale, there is impressive solidarity and a genuine desire to help. At the same time, signs of impotence and overload are well known in many places. Public debate ...

Secularization is a profound transformation of the society, in the sense of restructuring the relations between society and religion. Contemporary society are marked by a decrease of the role of religious institutions in the sphere of public life, by an accentuation of the general processes of individualization and rationalization as well as by the replacement of the traditional religious with innovative religious convictions and practices. The mutations in the field of values, norms, beliefs and practices of cont...

The secularization of society, often associated with the phenomenon of modernization of society, represents a complex process characterized by a restructuring of the moral-ethical values and religious practices. One of the issues of contemporary secularization of society involves passing the property belonging to the churches or monasteries into State ownership. While in Western society this process is the consequence of social developments, in the countries of the Communist bloc in Eastern Europe the secularizati...

Settlement of socio-economic problems generated by industrialization and globalization requires collaboration and effective cooperation between institutions as well as between socio-professional categories involved in economic activities. The Church's mission is not political, economic or social one, but an essentially religious mission, which is to proclaim the Gospel, to the fulfilment of redemption accomplished by Christ. The duty of the Church is to appeal to those responsible of civil life, so they work in or...

The efforts to improve the people's living conditions are effective only if they have, as a solid foundation, the citizen's right to private property. This property, even if it can be obtained through inheritance or donation, however, usually is obtained through his work by each person within family, professional associations or labour groups. The purpose whereon the man proposes, as a result of its activities, is the private property, the fruit of his labour. The worker, investing its forces and capabilities in t...