St. Louis Catholic School Teachers Seek Union

Recent Letter-Writing Campaign Lobbies Archdiocese, Vatican

Roman Catholic elementary school teachers in St. Louis are directing more than 2,000 letters to the Vatican from community members supporting the teachers’ efforts to form a union.

The letter-writing campaign is the latest action that the Association of Catholic Elementary Educators, a group of teachers at elementary schools in the Archdiocese of St. Louis, has taken in its nine-year struggle to become officially recognized as a union.

Just this August, the group filed a canonical recourse, the equivalent of a lawsuit, with the Vatican, asserting that the head of the archdiocese, Archbishop Raymond L. Burke, has denied the group its right under church...