A brief overview of the Catholic teaching on the Dignity of the Worker, and some of its implications in today's society.

1. Catholic Social Teaching The Dignity of the Worker The Missionaries of the Sacred Heart  USA Province 305 S. Lake Street, PO Box 270  Aurora, IL 60507 Phone: (630) 892-2371  Email: info@misacor-usa.org

3. Work honors the gifts and talents that God has given to each one of us.

5. Likewise, the economy must serve people, and profit cannot be the ultimate goal or purpose of economic activity .

8. We must work to remove practices of unjust discrimination from the hiring and promotion process, including discrimination based on gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religious affiliation. We must also work to end discrimination against women who are pregnant.

9. We must work for the end of slavery, which has taken the form of human trafficking. Forced labor of any kind, including within the sex industry, reduces the person to a means of profit, violating his/her dignity as a human being made in the image of God. To learn more about human trafficking in the USA, please visit: http://misacor-usa.org/ihuman-trafficking . Photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department Photo by Kay Chernush for the U.S. State Department