A pope for the poor?
By Mary Sanchez
Kansas City Star
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist” ...
It was not Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina, now known to the world as Pope Francis. But be assured that Francis is deeply familiar with the famous quotation spoken by Dom Helder Camara, archbishop of Olinda and Recife in Brazil, who died in 1999 ...
“We live in the most unequal part of the world, which has grown the most yet reduced misery the least. The unjust distribution of goods persists, creating a situation of social sin that cries out to heaven and limits the possibilities of a fuller life for so many of our brothers.”
This is the social question of the moment. How far will Francis go to press his natural constituency on the right wing to establish a more just economic order? ...
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