Diocesan Resources
CCHD Newsletter Issue Three (2019)
Catholic Campaign for Human Development Newsletter Issue Three, 2019
Defending the Rights of Workers —Catholic Labor Network (CLN) by Beth Griffin
The Catholic Church has a rich tradition of defending the rights of workers. In 1891, Pope Leo XIII wrote Rerum Novarum, his groundbreaking encyclical on the rights and duties of capital and labor—the foundational text of modern Catholic social teaching. Rerum Novarum describes the relationships and mutual responsibilities between employers and employees and supports laborers’ right to form unions.