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 Apr. 6, 2026 | ORGANIZED LABOR | More than a century before the rise of AI and Big Tech, the Catholic Church confronted a similar question to today: what happens when technological change threatens to leave workers behind? Not that long ago, it was the robber barons of the so-called “Gilded Age” who capitalized on working-class labor. …In 1891, Pope Leo XIII penned Rerum Novarum, his second encyclical, a letter of teaching akin to a sermon, which was sent to all bishops of the Catholic Church. In it, Leo XIII articulated the central moral issue of the industrial age: the insistence that the human is not a beast of burden. Teamsters Just Cause
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