Blog #17

In section 5 of CST, two of the main points that were viewed were the requirements of the common good and the advantages of individual ownership of property. It also focuses on the material things necessary for a good life should be available for use by the whole human community. Although, the Catholic tradition testifies the benefits of individual ownership, not only encouraging the most efficient and orderly of arrangements for material goods but offers people to be productive and to care for the goods God has created. The teachings also taught that the Creator intends the common gift to be used for nourishment and sustenance not just for the benefit of a few privileged people of society. As regarding property now, those who held a great amount of property hurt the poor  by allowing their plantations to lie fallow for long periods of time while nearby peasants were close to starvation.
In section 6 of this packet, it focuses on the conditions of labor. Government has now become the routinely enforces prevailing labor protections such as minimum wage laws, safety and health regulations, pension plans, social insurance, and the rights of workers to organize into labor unions. The most controversial though, is the Church's abiding and enthusiastic support for labor unions. Workers' rights to organize and enter collective bargaining are considered an important outgrowth of other human rights. Although, labor unions have come under substantial criticism. Some of the criticism they went through were them being associated with corruption and being a threat of disruptive and potentially violent strikes. The Catholic's teachings forthrightly contends that a world without labor, unions would witness a much less favorable environment for achieving justice and sharing the earth's resources. Although, its practical benefits were that human labor carries theological  significance as it contains the human response to the God who invites all people to become cocreators of the material world.