American Catholics are blessed with two Labor Days each year. In most of the world May 1 is the official labor holiday, and we join them as we commemorate the feast of St. Joseph the Worker.

New York hosted the nation’s first Labor Day parade when 10,000 workers marched from City Hall to Union Square. As the movement grew, so did the parades and celebrations. But times have changed.

Labor Day was once the nation’s most blatantly political national holiday — created by the trade-union movement to celebrate the ... King in the blessed vales of life Where perfect pleasures ...