Through everyone’s efforts

People can help to improve society through their ordinary work, which, as Saint Josemaría saw it, is not only a necessity in order to support oneself and one’s family, nor just a means of production, nor merely a way to self-fulfilment. It is much more [...]
Tags: Justice, Solidarity, Ordinary life

Testimony

Human Rights in Developing Countries: The Nigerian Experience

“We children of God, who are citizens with the same standing as any others, have to take part fearlessly in all honest human activities and organizations, so that Christ may be present in them. Our Lord will ask a strict account of each one of us [...]
Tags: Citizenship, Justice, Responsibility

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Time for the poor

These lines are not written in praise of hunger, hardship or any kind of human want. They are intended to be in praise of using wealth rightly, temperance, generosity and detachment. We are entering on a period of difficulty, economically speaking, and perhaps this means [...]
Tags: Charity, Justice, Pope, Poverty

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Josemaria Escriva’s love for the virtue of poverty

The article below is a translation of one that appeared in the Spanish daily ABC on June 26, 1985, the tenth anniversary of St Josemaria’s death. The Philippines are currently undergoing a grave economic crisis. With God’s grace and the untiring efforts of men and [...]
Tags: Justice, Poverty, Solidarity