About the Author
Michael J. Naughton
Michael J. Naughton is the director of the Center for Catholic Studies at the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) where he holds the Koch Chair in Catholic Studies and is a full professor in the department of Catholic Studies. He also taught in the College of Business for over twenty years. Dr. Naughton serves as board chair for Reell Precision Manufacturing. He also serves on the boards of the University of Mary, the Institute for Catholic Liberal Education, and Catholic Eldercare. He helped coordinate and write the Vocation of the Business Leader issued by the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. He is married with five children and ten grandchildren.
What People Are Saying
“Dr. Naughton brings to life the fundamental insights of the Catholic social tradition in its relation to business. Drawing upon the Catholic understanding of vocation, human dignity, common good, subsidiarity, solidarity, justice, and universal destination of the goods of the earth, he relates these principles to the commonplace practices of business—discerning your call, designing good jobs to exercise gifts and talents of workers, creating goods that truly are ‘good,’ paying just wages, and other important business practices.”
Cardinal Peter K.A. Turkson
Chancellor, Pontifical Academies of Sciences
“This little book conveys practical wisdom about the all-too-scattered works and days of our lives. It is a veritable retreat for serious businesspeople.”
Russell Hittinger
William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies, University of Tulsa
“This is a wise book that reorients work to the service of what matters: a life of joy shared with other people and with God. Michael Naughton makes this lofty ideal eminently practical, and never recommends anything that he has not practiced himself. Best of all, the book is not a guilt
trip but a portal to happiness. To anyone who has ever felt overworked, overly busy, or distracted by the demands of social media, this book will seem like water in the desert.”
William T. Cavanaugh
Professor, DePaul University
“In an emerging literature on the theme of meaningful work, Naughton’s Work & Rest will have a preeminent place. His insight that meaningful work is bound at its roots with meaningful leisure—that the work week and the day of rest give meaning to each other—offers readers an intelligent, personal, and practical guide to living.”
Kenneth Goodpaster
Professor Emeritus, University of St. Thomas (Minneapolis)
“Work & Rest is a wonderful invitation to share a vision of work that goes beyond resume obsession or ‘thank-God-it’s-Friday’ attitudes. It’s an invitation to ‘thank God it’s Sunday’ and keep thanking all week long.”
David Deavel
Professor of Theology, University of St. Thomas (Houston)
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