Since precious metals were first found there earlier in this century, Silver City, New Mexico, has been a site of struggle—at times bloody—between mine owners and the people they hired to haul ore out of the ground. Today those struggles have ended. The earth is scarred and exhausted, stripped of its buried treasure, and the mine owners have pulled up…
All You Who Labor: Work and the Sanctification of Daily Life Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski Sophia Institute Press, 1994 Book Review Homo nascitur ad laboreum, et avis ad volatum. “Man was born to work, like the bird was born to fly” (Job 5:7). Though written in the Latin Bible, these words could describe our work-obsessed society—with its hourly updates on the…