MacLean isn't the only one finally putting this stuff together ... and it extends way beyond the USA and Canada.  See also Jane Mayer's Dark Money and Arlie Hochchild's Strangers in their Own Land.

Given the resources of the Knights Supreme Council, perhaps they could do an analysis of the methods identified and documented by Mayers and MacLean and the lived realites documented by Hochchild ... using our Catholic Social Teachings as the criteria for evaluation if what is going on is consistent with our actual Official Church Teaching.

Given their professed great love and appreciation for him, I suggest they use St. John Paul's encyclical Centesimus Annus - and Benedict's Caritas in Veritate.

Let us not forget that in 1971, before he was a supreme court judge, Lewis Powell was corporate lawyer and sent his "memo" (on line) stating that - among others things ... the greatest threat to "American Enterprise" - meaning unregulated capitalism - was among other places - coming from pulpits