"Labor Day Statement: Promoting The Dignity of Workers in the Rise of AI"

Joe Tevington | 09/02/2025

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Most Rev Borys Gudziak

Archbishop oof Ukrainian Catholic

Archeparchy of Philadelphia

Chairman of the USCCB Committee on

Domestic Justice & Human Development

Your Excellency Arbishop Gudziak,

As per the USCCB's "Labor Day Statement: Promoting the Dignity of Workers in the Rise of AI",

"My brother bishops and I are particularly mindful those among us who are already vulnerable—immigrant workers, farm laborers, low-wage earners, and young people—who often suffer the greatest effects of economic disruptions" [sic].

In light of the USCCB's reticence to address undocumented entry into the U.S., the concern about AI is both challenging and confusing,

Other than transfers of wealth, do you have specific economic suggestion, as your Harvard PhD seems to have many following your lead?

I confess that I am reminded of the old saying; "Nothing is impossible for the man who does not have to do it himself."

You appear to remain a tireless advocate for Ukraine's unwinnable conflict with Russia, rather than applying Catholicism's just war analysis. Why do we lay people not see even slightly comparable USCCB concern for the Islamic slaughter of Catholics in Nigeria? I pray that it's not the color of Nigerian Catholic skin leading to seeming USCCB apathy!

As a Roman Catholic, I am unfamiliar with whether you advocate Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life anywhere close to as strongly as you advocate your own political opinions.

Joseph Tevington

Morrisville, Pa

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About the Author

Joe Tevington

Joe Tevington is a proudly orthodox Catholic, a husband since 1986, a dad to two adult children, a grandpa to two, and a civil service retiree. He is a sign language fluent certified rehabilitation counselor with graduate degrees in deafness rehabilitation, religious studies/moral theology, & Christian counseling psychology, as well as a catechetical diploma and certificates in benefits planning and Catholic social ministry. He deeply appreciates Catholic teaching on the sanctity of human life and the sanctity of the transmission of human life, as well as how they are to inform us in our apostolates and ministries.

On much lighter notes, he fancies himself to be the foremost authority on his native Brooklyn, when it comes to architecture, cinema, geography, history, Italian food, stick ball, stoop ball, or wiffle ball.