Executive Council Statement
Monsignor George Higgins
… from his sixty years of leadership on Catholic social teaching. The many union organizers and leaders who were privileged to know him and were aided directly by his counsel revered him for his intellect and tenacity B even if some days we were on the receiving end of a lesson or two. Msgr. George Higgins was always delivering a message - sometimes welcome to his listeners and sometimes the other kind - and so he seemed to be doing one last time in life when he passed away on May … planning to build upon the relationship George constructed and maintained through unique example. Today, when the right to organize remains under assault here and abroad, when minimum wage laws are weakened or eroded, when globalization of …