I Don't Know How Things Stand In

While All Too Many People Live In Dire Poverty, Others Are Caught Up In Materialism And Lifestyles Which Are Destructive Of Family Life And The Most Basic Demands Of Christian Morality.

Charity That Does Not Change The Situation Of The Poor Isn't Enough.

Being Christian Is Not Just Obeying Orders But Means Being In Christ, Thinking Like Him, Acting Like Him, Loving Like Him; It Means Letting Him Take Possession Of Our Life And Change It, Transform It, And Free It From The Darkness Of Evil And Sin. ... Let Us Show The Joy Of Being Children Of God, The Freedom That Living In Christ Gives Us Which Is True Freedom, The Freedom That Saves Us From The Slavery Of Evil, Of Sin And Of Death!

As Christians, We Have An Additional Reason To Love And Serve The Poor; For In Them We See The Face And The Flesh Of Christ, Who Made Himself Poor So To Enrich Us With His Poverty.

Let Us Never Forget That Authentic Power Is Service, Which Has Its Radiant Culmination On The Cross.