{"id":24949,"date":"2013-04-20T09:44:58","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T14:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/?p=24949"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T16:23:21","slug":"rights-and-duties-of-catholic-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/voxnova\/2013\/04\/20\/rights-and-duties-of-catholic-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Rights and Duties of Catholic Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

In the United States,\u00a0 there is a lot of emphasis on the rights of Catholic employers to be exempt from any mandate to provide health insurance plans including contraception. But of course, we know that the\u00a0Catholic understanding of right differs from the standard liberal one \u2013 in the former, you have a right to something so you can discharge a corresponding duty, whereas in the latter, you have a right not be\u00a0coerced as long as it doesn\u2019t bump up against the corresponding rights of others.<\/p>\n

So perhaps we should shift the focus a bit from the \u201crights\u201d of Catholic employers to the\u00a0\u201cduties\u201d that underpin these rights. And this is clear \u2013 they have a duty to provide\u00a0a just wage (which is not the same thing as the market wage); to provide decent employment conditions, including adequate leave and benefits; and to support the role of unions. This is by far the most important thing. So important, in fact, that then-cardinal Bergoglio singled it out as an instance of whether it would be appropriate to receive communion or not. From John Allen<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cFrancis does not address the question of whether bishops should administer communion to pro-choice Catholic politicians, but he hints at how he might handle it in the context of talking about Catholic business leaders who refuse to pay employees a just wage.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn certain situations, I do not give communion myself; I stay back and I let the ministers give it because I do not want those people to come to me for the photo op,\u201d he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the first issue Francis picks, not whether or not a public figure supports legal abortion or not. Funny how you never hear this example being used in the United States, isn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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