{"id":16955,"date":"2011-04-20T12:49:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/?p=16955"},"modified":"2011-04-20T12:49:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T17:49:44","slug":"quote-of-the-day-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2011\/04\/20\/quote-of-the-day-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><blockquote><p>\u201cCuts in social spending \u2026\u00a0can leave citizens powerless in the face of old and new risks; such powerlessness is increased by the lack of effective protection on the part of workers\u2019 associations. Through the combination of social and economic change, <em>trade union organizations <\/em>experience greater difficulty in carrying out their task of representing the interests of workers, partly because Governments, for reasons of economic utility, often limit the freedom or the negotiating capacity of labour unions. Hence traditional networks of solidarity have more and more obstacles to overcome. The repeated calls issued within the Church\u2019s social doctrine, beginning with<em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/leo_xiii\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_l-xiii_enc_15051891_rerum-novarum_en.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Rerum Novarum<\/a><\/em>, for the promotion of workers\u2019 associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honoured today even more than in the past, as a prompt and far-sighted response to the urgent need for new forms of cooperation at the international level, as well as the local level.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2013 Pope Benedict XVI, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vatican.va\/holy_father\/benedict_xvi\/encyclicals\/documents\/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20090629_caritas-in-veritate_en.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Caritas in Veritate<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCuts in social spending \u2026\u00a0can leave citizens powerless in the face of old and new risks; such powerlessness is increased by the lack of effective protection on the part of workers\u2019 associations. 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