Echoing what Pope Francis said during a Mass in May, the bishop who heads the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development said, “The struggle of working people, of the poor” is not first a “social or political question. No! It is the Gospel, pure and simple.”
Bishop echoes pope: The poor’s plight is ‘the Gospel, pure and simple’
Bishops’ annual Labor Day statement scores ‘excessive inequality’
Bishop Dewane suggested several approaches to right the imbalance brought by inequality in the U.S. bishops’ annual Labor Day statement dated Sept. 4.
Labor Day statement ties lack of good jobs to decline in family life
Today’s “economic and political forces have led to increasingly lowered economic prospects for Americans without access to higher education, which is having a direct impact on family health and stability,” said Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami.