Cultural Values and Personal Ethics

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This paper addresses the problem of how people can relate their personal values and personal ethics to the ethics of the marketplace. The paper focuses specifically on the Catholic religion and those that worship in the Catholic church . The paper attempts to answer the question of how one connects worship on Sunday to work on Monday. More specifically, the paper looks at how Catholics can carry the best values of their faith into family life, the marketplace and the public square.

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"Thomas Baker of the Catholic Journal Commonweal noted in 2002 "In the Catholic Church we've had several generations to live with Vatican II's reminder that what we do with our working lives has ultimate significance." (Baker, 2002) In other words,one's value system does not stop at the foyer of one's office building. One should not impose one's values upon ones fellow workers and employees, but even if one wished to, one could not hang up one's Catholicism with one's outside jacket, or store away one's values along with one's umbrella on a sunny day. "But" Baker continues, "there aren't many signs that church programs, preaching, or parishes have found effective ways to get that message across." (Baker, 2002)"

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