Coincidence, synchronicity or Symbiosis?
Catholicism and the Work of the ILO
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https://doi.org/10.18172/redsye.6115Keywords:
Human Rights, Catholic Social Teaching, ILOAbstract
This study tests the assumption that if CST, and the pronouncements of the ILO evidence striking similarities, that each must have learned from or been swayed by the other. It reviews to what extent there has been a conscious link between the secular and the theological, and whether what appears to be synchronicity are on closer examination merely self-contained processes of development, reacting independently of the other to conditions in society, such that perceived parallelisms are coincidence or the selective categorising of linked though not necessarily interdependent concepts or normative responses to societal pressures. The extent of the parallelism and cross-influence is reviewed in the case of CST from the issue of the Papal Encyclical of Pope Leo XIII De Rerum Novarum (1891) and of IHRL from the ILO Preamble of 1919. The conclusion drawn is that perceived synchronicity between CST and the ILO during the past hundred years has revealed itself to be substantive symbiosis.
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