Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life

Tonight, the Kalmanovitz Institute for Labor and the Working Poor is hosting an event on "Rerum Novarum: Worker Justice in the Church and On Campus." To gain some insight, I spoke with Georgetown professor Dr. Kerry Danner in the Theology Department and the Justice and Peace program. She is a member of the part-time faculty executive committee and was part of the bargaining team for their first union contract. This is an excerpt from our conversation.

In anticipation of the celebration of the now 125-year-old landmark encyclical Rerum Novarum that the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor is hosting today, I sat down with Lily Ryan to discuss her campus activism and how it is rooted in her Catholic faith and Catholic social teaching. Lily has been very involved in worker’s rights social justice here on the Hilltop.