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Our efforts cannot and should not substitute for just public policies and effective programs to meet the needs of the hungry...Money, food, and time…

— John Ricard

“The parishioners looked dazed, but happy. The only thing good Catholics love more than God is a short service. Keep your organ music, your…

— Dennis Lehane

“The Catholic Church built and ran hospitals, schools, and centres for the poor and unemployed generations before the secular state became involved, and even…

— Michael Coren

The Catholic Church is an enormous footprint in Chicago, doing a lot of good. That aspiration is felt by a lot of people -…

— Blase J. Cupich

The Church will always be renewed when our attention shifts from ourselves to those who need our care. The blessing of Jesus always comes…

— Henri Nouwen

And of course most non-Catholics imagine that the Church is immensely rich, and that all Catholic institutions make money hand over fist, and that…

— Thomas Merton

Any one who has seen a church mouse then he must know that poverty is well known. Thanks a lot for your generous donation…

— Anonymous

I am Catholic but I want to say something to the Catholics. Thank you for some of the bishops who live in rural areas,…

— Evo Morales

“And that’s when things get messy. When people begin moving beyond charity and toward justice and solidarity with the poor and oppressed, as Jesus…

— Shane Claiborne

“In his encyclical Deus caritas est, Benedict XVI correctly recalls that “Christian charitable activity must be independent of parties and ideologies. It is not…

— Robert Sarah

Partner with churches to assist the poor.

— Jim DeMint

In the Catholic Worker we must try to have the voluntary poverty of St. Francis, the charity of St. Vincent de Paul, the intellectual…

— Peter Maurin