"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a Communist."
- Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara
- Dom Hélder Pessoa Câmara
"The attack on social justice is the tack of those who wish to ignore the concerns the poor and ignore the social structures that foster poverty. It's not hard to see why people are tempted to do so. How much easier it would be if we didn't have to worry about the poor!
But ignoring the poor, and ignoring what keeps them poor, is, quite simply, unchristian. For the poor are the church in many ways. When St. Lawrence, in the fourth century, was ordered by the prefect of Rome to turn over the wealth of the church, he presented to him the poor."
- Rev. James Martin, S.J.