When the bottomline isn't a number.

In these times of economic distress, collapsing global economy,  and the devastating inability to govern rather politic, I thought a re-reading of the Church’s principle document on capital & labor, as well a,s this year’s Labor Day statement by  the US Bishop’s was in order.

Rerum Novarum
Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/leo_xiii/encyclicals/documents/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum_en.html

Human Costs and Moral Challenges of a Broken Economy
Bishop Stephen E. Blaire
Bishop of Stockton
Chairman, Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
September 5, 2011

http://www.usccb.org/about/domestic-social-development/upload/Labor-Day-2011.pdf