Labor Day weekend starts with an economic boom: 162,000+ new jobs in August; American archbishop pays tribute to Labor Day: ‘Work is more than a way to make a living; it is a form of participation in God’s creation’; Flashback: Dolly Parton’s song ‘9 to 5’ inspired by real life labor movement; Fox News abruptly announces departure of Maria Bartiromo, her lawyer hints at ‘court fight’; Lindsay Clancy murder trial officially ends in mistrial after lawyer’s Hail Mary appeal denied; Canadian bishop speaks against new government instructions barring military chaplains from referencing God; Reminder: Today is First Saturday of September; Catholics remember the 20th-century saint who left convent life to serve ‘the poorest of the poor’ in India; and more —
Labor Day weekend begins with an economic BOOM
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Labor Day Statement 2026 by Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre of Louisville and Chairman of the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development
Labor Day is an opportunity to celebrate workers and honor the dignity of work. Work is more than a way to make a living; it is a form of participation in God’s creation. This year, we focus on young people and vulnerable communities who face uncertainty in today’s economy. Traditional economic indicators tell us the economy is growing, but hiring has slowed, especially for unemployed workers, and unemployment remains high for Black workers. [i] Roughly one-quarter of the labor force are low-wage workers; among them, 72% lack stable and secure jobs [ii] and more than half are people of color. [iii] More than 70% of Americans believe having children is unaffordable, an increase of 13 points in just the last year. [iv] There is widespread concern that artificial intelligence (AI) will lead to higher unemployment and to fewer jobs that can support a family. Young people have been the most impacted so far [v] and also experience the most anxiety about AI’s impact on their work. [vi] We must listen to the experiences of workers, families, young people, and communities of color as they struggle to find stability.
Read more at USCCB
Dolly Parton’s 9-5 and Labor Day
You must’ve listened to the iconic Dolly Parton song “9 to 5,” but you might be surprised to hear that it was inspired by a real-life labor movement led by women in the 1970s. A group of female office secretaries in Boston, who formed a historic union, used unconventional approaches and the press to get better pay, more advancement opportunities and end the sexual harassment they were experiencing. Information adapted from ida
Watch at Dolly Parton; watch trailer to ‘9 to 5’ movie at Klokline Cinema
Fox News Abruptly Announces Departure Of Maria Bartiromo
Fox News abruptly announced the departure of Fox Business anchor Maria Bartiromo on Thursday.
“Effective today, Maria Bartiromo is no longer with FOX News Media,” Fox said in a statement. “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 and a half years and wish her all the best on her next chapter.”
Vanity Fair Washington correspondent Aidan McLaughlin reported that Bartiromo did not leave for a job in the Trump administration after speculation she would take over as White House press secretary.
Read more at Daily Caller
Maria Bartiromo’s lawyer speaks out
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Lindsay Clancy murder trial ends in mistrial
See @nypost
Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer slams holdout juror, claims he ‘stole’ other jurors’ lives
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WNBA commissioner who can’t/won’t define ‘woman’ to retire
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Gloria Steinem’s Belief That Female Success Requires Abortion Is Anti-Woman by Jordan Boyd
Demanding abortion so women can ‘direct their lives’ is not empowering. It’s reductionist, insulting, and downright anti-woman.
The world’s “most famous feminist” Gloria Steinem died at 92 years old on Wednesday, but the legacy the Ms. magazine co-founder leaves isn’t exactly the distinguished pro-woman one described by fawning corporate media outlets. Steinem’s legacy is both defined and ruled by the idea that abortion is what gives a woman her worth.
Steinem has always been and will continued to be honored by all the wrong people for all the wrong reasons. The Atlantic was among the worst this week when it dubbed Steinem’s work “feminism for all” despite the writer’s decades-long history of snubbing men (The Patriarchy™), marriage (“You become a semi-non person when you get married”), motherhood, household labor and any women who refused to fall into line with her shade of feminism.
Yes, the former undercover Playboy Bunny and CIA collaborator once lamented the “patriarchal, nuclear family” as an invention of “industrialization and capitalism” and purported solidarity for her sex unless it was politically inconvenient. Steinem also played an early role in feminists’ blurring sex differences by calling research on the subject “the remnant of anti-American crazy thinking” and repeatedly insisted “we badly need to raise our boys more like our girls.”
Read more at The Federalist
Canadian Bishop: When does state neutrality threaten one’s religious freedom?
Following new instructions barring military chaplains from referencing God in certain contexts, Bishop Scott McCaig speaks to Vatican News about the dangerous precedence this policy can set, the road that led to these instructions, an inter-faith committee dedicated to confronting this policy, and the hope that Canadian Catholics have.
On July 29, 2026, the Government of Canada issued this statement as part of the text, “Canadian Armed Forces Military Personnel Training 03/26 – Spiritual Reflections in Military Contexts”—new instructions regarding spirituality in the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF).
No one—from chaplains of any faith, volunteers, students, casual workers, contractors, and any employees of the Department of National Defence (DND)—is allowed to use any language that references God in any event connected to official government business.
Read more at Vatican News
England’s Historic Cathedrals Turn to Pop Concerts and Silent Discos
As Church of England cathedrals face deep financial strain, venues once central to Britain’s Christian history are hosting tribute acts, ‘raves in the nave’ and becoming nightclubs — prompting charges of desecration.
“Candlelight concerts” are taking place every week this fall in many of Britain’s ancient, historic and once-Catholic cathedrals, but these are not lofty performances of sacred or even classical music.
In Worcester Cathedral, founded in 680, rebuilt by St. Wulfstan, and the burial place of King John who issued the Magna Carta, the late pop singer Whitney Houston’s greatest hits will be performed. On other nights, the once-hallowed nave will be the setting for cover bands playing songs by the Eagles, Coldplay and Tina Turner.
Selby Abbey in Yorkshire, which survived Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries and is famous for featuring the 14th-century “Washington Window,” which inspired the U.S. flag, will become the venue for the Beatles and Queen tribute bands in October.
A Luther Vandross impersonator is performing in various cathedrals including the nave of St. Albans Cathedral, the oldest site of continuous Christian worship in Britain that stands on the burial place of Britain’s first martyr, St. Alban.
Read more at the National Catholic Register
UK Citizen protestors in coastal town take migrant matters into their own hands
Citizen protestors in Dover dressed in black cut off several points of the port simultaneously. They want to prevent illegal migrants from disembarking. They’re not waiting for the UK government to do it. Police watch the protestors.
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Meanwhile in Spain …
‘In Ceuta, the beach is no longer a beach. Now it’s a dump with cardboard stalls, plastics, and people sleeping among the trash. The homes of the Ceutans are just two steps away. No one drives them out, no one cleans this up. And the Government looks the other way as if it weren’t Spain. This is a disgrace.‘
Watch @AlertaGlobal24H
Reminder: Today is the First Saturday of September
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Today is the Feast of St. Teresa of Calcutta
Mother Teresa was born August 26, 1910 into a Kosovar Albanian family in Skopje, then part of the Ottoman Empire; she died September 5, 1997, Calcutta, India.
See @FriarMario
Flashback to 1979: Mother Teresa receives the Nobel Peace Prize
‘And I feel one thing I want to share with you all, the greatest destroyer of peace today is the cry of the innocent unborn child. For if a mother can murder her own child in her own womb, what is left for you and for me to kill each other?’ – Mother Teresa
Watch @thyflameoflove; read Mother Teresa’s Acceptance Speech at The Nobel Prize
Mother Teresa: Serving the Poor Against All Odds – Full Movie
The life of Mother Teresa from her childhood in Albania in the 1920s to her first calling, her decision to live with the poorest of the poor, the vicissitudes of founding the Congregation of the Sisters of Charity and her hard and extenuating work in Calcutta and the rest of the world.
Watch at Best Drama Movies; read also ‘Portraying Mother Teresa’ at the National Catholic Register (2014)
