My opinion...

To me, Solidarity is the most important and the base of all the Catholic Social Teachings. Solidarity is the realization that that you are a human being. Its just not you that is a human being, everyone around you is also a human being. We all should love each other equally. We should not hate each other. We are all the same not matter what our race or culture or nationallity is. What makes us so alike is that we were all made in God's image and likeness. God made us so we could live a happy life in earth full of happiness and love. Not full of hate and viciousness and war and killing and sin. Every day we should wake up and praise God for giving us our life, for the things we have in it, and especially all the people who we have been blessed to have in our life. People like our mom, our dad, sister, brother, aunts, uncles, and so on and so forth. We should love each other for who they are and not try to change them in any way. We are all unique and we all have a out own special talents we have been given by God. Our life is a gift, not a reward. We should live it to the fullest, always knowing that God is by our side. (:

-♥-
Olivia

My OPINION.......

In my opinion, solidarity is the most important in Catholic Social Teaching. I think solidarity is the most important because it unites us with one. We all help each other in our community if we are all part of solidarity. Solidarity helps each and every one of us grow as a Catholics. We all can be part of solidarity if we just help each other. In solidarity, we can all be part of one community and part of one society. We all will not be a perfect society with solidarity, but we can be a great community. We should love one another as God loved us. We should all help one another as Jesus did. We all need to love as Jesus did.
We all are part of one community. If we don't know how to love one another we can not do any of the other Catholic Social Teaching. No matter what race we are we all are part of one community. We all can love each one another. Solidarity is all what love is about. We need to be a family as one. We all can be together in a large community and be a family. In my opinion, solidarity is all about love.

-jacob-

10 Year Old Survives Deadly Sting from a Box Jellyfish?

This story is awesome, I think that it's a miracle.
A 10 year old girl named Rachael Shardlow, from Australia, was swimming in a river with her brother. She went unconscious after being stung by this jellyfish. This particular jellyfish is so powerful that most people often go into shock and drown of heart failure. The venom of the jellyfish is very painful, and there isn't an anti-venom for its sting. It also has tentacles that is able to squeeze through even the smallest nets as it is only the size of a tiny fingernail. Luckily, this little girl was saved by her 13 year old brother. She spent about 6 weeks recovering in the hospital. Jamie Seymour zoology professor, says, "When I first saw the pictures of the injuries I just went, 'You know, to be honest, this kid should not be alive." She also said, "I don't know of anybody in the entire literature where we've studied this where someone has had such an extensive sting, that has survived." Rachael's father said that she only suffers scars on her legs, and some short term memory loss. This is story is amazingly awesome, and truly a miracle of God.
-Chandler.

Abortioned Baby Survives!

A 22-week old baby's mother decided to get an abortion. Someone, name unknown, saw the 22-week old baby move in the tank. The baby was still breathing. It died two days later. The baby died after it was left with no care. Scans show that the baby had two malformations, one on its lip and one on its palate. The baby, weighing just under 11 ounces, was deposited by doctors onto a sheet after the procedure, and placed in a container to await his death. Law enforcement officials are investigating the case to see if this qualifies as abandonment or homicide. I believe this is a really important story. It tells us we should give everyone a right to life. Even though we might not want a child, we should always give a baby the right to life. There is a storey of a mom who wanted to get an abortion but decided not to. Her son grew up to be a very successful man. Like I said before, everyone should have the right to live. This is a way we can care for God's creations. W might not think a baby has a right to live but God gives every one the right to life.

-Joey-

Caring for God's Creation

Our world is our home that we need to take care of and respect. We need to also care for the things living in our world. Why do people insist on trashing it? Why can't they just take their trash to the nearest trashcan and throw it away! When you just throw it on the ground it means that you have no respect for what God made for us. Sadly, some trash can even get into the water and kill the sea animals. Is that really fair? Are people really that selfish? God loves us and he made our world why can't we just take care of it? Taking care of our environment is easy. We can do many things like recycle, and we could even clean the beaches. If we took care of our world in the first place, we wouldn't be worried about killing off sea animals or pollution. Taking care of God's creation isn't just caring for people, we need to care for animals too. If we all cared for each other then we wouldn't have to worry about fighting or bullying. Is it possible for us to live in peace and take care of our world?
- Chandler.

The Dignity of Work and the Rights of Workers

Everyone has rights and responsibilities in their life. Their life isn't as easy as you'd suspect it to be. Every choice you make there's a consequence that follows it. Either good or bad, you still have to comply with it. "Work is more than a way of living, it is a form of continuing participation in God's creation," says the US Bishops in Sharing Catholic Social Teaching. Workers have a responsibility to do their job to the best of their ability, and in return they get paid. But what about being overworked and underpaid? This happens in many third world countries. Children even work, and hardly get paid anything. People deserve fair wages if they put in alot of work, not just minimum wage. Everyone deserves to be treated fairly. It isn't fair when people hardly work and get paid more than people that work harder. Even some children work harder than adults and get paid less. Work is very important, because it is the way we provide for ourselves and our families. But, if we dont get paid decent or fairly, is that possible? Issues of workplace equality, fair wage, benefits, and family concerns have been issues for workers all around the world, not just the United States.
-Chandler.

Rights and Responsibilities

Everyone has rights and responsibilities. God is calling us to help keep peace in the world. A few responsibilities are helping friends and family and obeying God. Ever since we are born and baptized we are called by God to partake in the responsibilities He gives us. We also have a fundamental right to life, the right that makes all others possible. Every person has a right to living a decent life in God. We have a duty to respect these rights and responsibilities but not only for ourselves but for everyone. Everyone has a right to a good education and shelter. In today's society, some of these rights are challenged. Some ways our rights are challenged are illegal immigrants are deprived of health care. Another way is public schools are not able to pray in public and if they do, they could get in a lot of trouble. One other is teachers in a public school aren't allowed to talk to students about religious information. Everyone should have the right to talk about there faith in public. Here at St. Johns the Evangelist school we are encouraged to talk about our faith, it is one of our rights.

- Joey-