HARVESTING CORN -- Mike Weaver, a Catholic farmer in LaPorte County, Ind., watches the flow of corn during harvest time on his family farm in November 2003. Weaver, who works several jobs, said of farming, "You have to take the good with the bad and make the best of it." There are many "daunting challenges" today to the church's stand on work, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn, N.Y., said in a statement for Labor Day, celebrated Sept. 5 this year.

Photo by Karen Callaway, Northwest Indiana Catholic