30 years ago today, Pope St John Paul II signed Centesimus Annus. He wrote that work with and for others is often rightly & #39;a matter of doing something for someone else& #39;.

He then gives us all wake up calls, e.g. 1) & #39;"Humane" working hours and adequate free-time need to be guaranteed, as well as the right to express one& #39;s own personality at the work-place without suffering any affront to one& #39;s conscience or personal dignity.& #39;

2) & #39;...what is being proposed as an alternative [to the absolute predominance of capital and possession] is not the socialist system, which in fact turns out to be State capitalism, but rather a society of free work, of enterprise and of participation.& #39;