The Teaching of the Catholic Church

WHY should the Church have anything to say about the rela- tions between capital and labor?Are not these purely economic arrange- ments, and as such outside the province of a religious society?These questions imply a misconception which Pope Leo XIII noted as very common, but which he promptly rejected.In his words, &dquo;the social question ... is first of all a moral and religious matter, and for that reason its settlement is to be sought mainly in the moral law