Bishop links today’s workforce to laborers who inspired ‘Rerum Novarum’

August 31, 2011 - ­­WASHINGTON (CNS)—The head of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, in an annual Labor Day statement, likened today’s workers and the difficulties they face to those who inspired Pope Leo XIII’s landmark encyclical of 120 years ago, “Rerum Novarum,” (“On New Things”).... [read more]