<![CDATA[Newt Gingrich Fights Pope, Al Franken, Public on Union Rights]]>

1.0 link 228260 <![CDATA[Newt Gingrich Fights Pope, Al Franken, Public on Union Rights]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/newt-gingrich-fights-pope_b_228260.html Recent Catholic convert Newt Gingrich is challenging Pope Pope Benedict XVI and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops over workers' rights to organize. In an encyclical released this week (hat tip to the AFL-CIO Now blog), the Pope embraced the right to form unions as essential to economic justice.

The Pope declared:

Through the combination of social and economic change, trade union organizations experience greater difficulty in carrying out their task of representing...

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