Massaro, Section 5 and 6

In section 5 it states how the Catholic tradition benefits individual ownership and be able to care for the goods of God. This section also talks about the teachings that the Catholic Church has on private property and working rights. "To expropriate property means to take it from its present owner, a course of action not normally recommended in the documents of Catholic social teaching."(page92) It brought up one interesting point on how property is not yours unless it came from God. It is good to own private property but to be able to help the ones in needs is that insight that the Catholic Social teaching had in mind. In Section 6 it then begins to talk about labor unions. Catholic Social teaching believed in labor unions and felt that they were an important role in the economic justice. Yes, there were cons about labor unions on how they were driving up cost and there were excessive demands on wages. One thing that labor unions had on people were human rights in the work force. In the US today labor unions are becoming less. They are now hiring part time workers because they don't get paid as much, don't get as many rights as if you were full time worker because it is cheaper to pay just minimum wage. This results in many people having to get multiple jobs just in order to attain money in order to live a sustainable life.