Why the Catholic Church Loves Unions

This week, Chicago Archbishop Blase Cupich, the leader of the cityâ??s Catholics in a time of intense transition, threw himself into the political arena with what the State Journal-Registerâ??s Bernard Schoenburg called â??a ringing defense of the labor movement.â? And not just labor generallyâ??the right of both public and private sector workers to unionize, and specifically right-to-work laws, as expressed directly in his speech: