“At a recent conference on the social doctrine I found myself in a room full of some very bright people who said they couldn’t figure out what the Church meant by a ‘just wage,’ or a ‘family wage.’ At the time I wasn’t sure what the problem was, and I’m not so sure now either. The social encyclicals do, after all, talk about this with some specificity.”
In a recent commentary, Omar F. A. Gutierrez (Coordinator of Lay Leadership and Social Witness Formation, Catholic Faith Formation Office, Archdiocese of Omaha) uses insights from papal encyclicals to explain what is meant by a “just wage” and a “family wage” from the perspective of the Church.
To access the complete post by Mr. Gutierrez, please visit:
Regnum Novum: The Prickly Question of a Just Wage (30 JAN 12)
Background information:
Pope Leo XIII: Rerum Novarum (on Capital and Labor)
Pope John XXIII: Mater et Magistra (on Christianity and Social Progress)
Pope Pius XI: Quadragesimo Anno (on Reconstruction of the Social Order)
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