This work was published in 2004 by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace...and deals with...the church as the mission of Jesus Christ and its social doctrine, the human person and human rights, the family in society, human work and the economy, the political and international communities, the environment, promoting peace, pastoral actions and the activities of the laity, and working to build a civilization of love. (Text taken from Wikipedia) Click the link below to read the Compendium on the Vatican website.
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Mother Jones, inspired by her Catholicism, joins with working boys to protest child labor. Photo by Lewis Hine, circa 1903. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/49680402110383783/
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