Faith at Work for the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation
Laura DeMaria
Earlier this year at the had pleasure of meeting Brian Grim, President of the Religious Freedom and Business Foundation (RFBF), at RFBF’s Faith@Work conference. RFBF exists to promote the acceptance of faith in the professional setting, and to make the business case for religious freedom in the workplace.
Today, RFBF published a blog post I wrote called Bringing my whole self to work: A Catholic perspective. In it, I describe a few ways my faith, on a daily basis, influences the way I work, from the way I interact with others, to my decision-making processes.
One important point: I could have been more explicit that my faith asks me to do these things, and causes me to strive to, for example, live more virtuously. But we all know the path to sainthood is crooked, and sometimes I fall short. No leader is perfect, and having Christian faith certainly does not make one into a magical genie guru of patience and positivity. My point is, I know by my Catholic faith that I can and should do better, and, with God’s grace, I do strive to see the face of Jesus in others - including at work. My faith informs me, no matter where I am.
Bonus, unrelated things: I am reading Chen Guangcheng’s amazing biography, The Barefoot Lawyer. Today I also came across a 2017 Providence Magazine article, A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Collapse of Communism.
I am thinking a lot about communism’s failings as we live through the coronavirus, and looking for more information on how St. John Paul II viewed the fight against communism as a spiritual battle; a battle against an anti-human ideology. I want to understand why Christianity is in opposition to communism. Recommendations?
The author of that article, Paul Kengor, also created a film that came out in the past couple years called The Divine Plan, whose trailer you can view here.