Have had a bit of time to catch up a bit on the Wisconsin business...

And so found this post at Vox Nova interesting; the brethren will now, I suppose, be arguing that the details of union contracts are as substantially important as securing the right to life. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.... To the specific question raised in comments on the Minion's post as to whether or not the popes or bishops have directly addressed what are the special conditions (if any) of sovereigns in their relations with public employees, I don't have an answer and am not going to spend the afternoon reading ecclesiastical nonsense; I suspect that the magisterial intuition would be to embolden the sentences of existing texts which refer to the common good and add a couple of footnotes recalling the attention of the faithful to the fact that no private rights are absolute.