This year's annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. bishops

While in Rome this week, NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters spoke with a number of visiting cardinals and curial officials who all agreed that speculation that Pope Francis' tenure is coming to its end is misplaced. 

This year's annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. bishops touts two bills awaiting action in Congress as being helpful to children, women and families: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and an expansion of the federal child tax credit.

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