Ostrowski, Maciej (Wydawnictwo Towarzystwa Naukowego Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 2007)
The right to free time and relax is guaranteed in civil legislation. The Bible and Catholic social teaching say about it, especially Popes Leo XIII, John XXIII, John Paul II, the Second Vatican Council, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, synodal documents, and many theologians. Man is entitled to free time, so he does not lose his physical strength and health as the gifts of God in the order of nature. Man needs also free time to develop his own personality, family, social, and religious life. It is important to preserve not only the proper balance between work and free time, but also to have a respective amount of free time. The civil authorities are obliged to protect that right. The Church’s task is to bring up its members to a conscious and responsible exercise of the right to relax.
