New York's Cardinal Dolan says gay people are 'entitled to friendship' only

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83. Because the Catholic Church OPPOSES cuts in Domestic Spending? They Defend labor rights?

We are profoundly concerned that the allocation for non-defense discretionary spending be large enough to maintain current commitments to poor persons. Cuts in this allocation, which includes many domestic and international poverty-focused programs, will have a disproportionate impact on vulnerable families.
This is especially true of the dramatic cuts envisioned in the House Budget resolution.
Non-defense discretionary spending that serves poor and vulnerable people includes but is not limited to:
Head Start; Emergency Food and Shelter Program; improved workforce training and development;
safe and affordable housing;
the DC Opportunity Scholarship Program, which provides vital assistance to poor families in the nation’s capital in seeking out high-quality education for their children;
as well as poverty-focused international assistance programs that save lives, treat and prevent disease, make farmers more productive, help orphans, feed victims of disasters, and protect refugees, enhancing global security.
The House proposed budget drastically cuts mandatory programs (not including Social Security, health care programs, civil service pensions, farm programs, and interest payments) by about $800 billion over ten years, relative to current law. This figure is very concerning, since 70 percent of the spending in this budget category goes for programs to help poor and vulnerable people. Programs in this category include programs that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has consistently supported:
Pell Grants;
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps);
the Supplemental Security Income program (SSI) for the aged and disabled people in poverty;
School lunches and other child nutrition programs;
the Earned Income Tax Credit and the low income component of the Child Tax Credit;
and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/federal-budget/upload/Budget_Resolutions_FY2014-2013-03-18.pdf
http://usccb.org/news/2013/13-053.cfm
http://usccb.org/

They also support worker's right to organize:

You point out that Pope Benedict XVI, in Caritas in Veritate, states, “The repeated calls…for the promotion of workers' associations that can defend their rights must therefore be honoured today even more than in the past.” (#25) In Laborem Exercens, Pope John Paul II calls labor associations “an indispensable element of social life, especially in modern industrialized societies,” but also reminds unions “to secure the just rights of workers within the framework of the common good of the whole of society.”

http://usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/labor-employment/upload/Archbishop-Listecki-support-FINAL.pdf

Thus they are a tremendous ally to Labor and Economic Progressives, who put the above above gays rights IF they have to make a choice (and often you have to, when you are looking at potential allies in any political fight).