Fr. Schall, Pope Francis & the Poor | National Catholic Reporter

Fr. Schall, Pope Francis & the Poor | National Catholic Reporter by MSW.  MGB: Cops won't seize your house because a guest is getting high.  They will seize it if you are dealing, which I could not imagine.  More to the point, Schall identifies what happens in much of the world, especially in Latin America (Francis is the exception), where the Catholic clergy tend to serve the richer citizens and keep the poor at arms length.  As for whether Fr. Schall has ever had a ministry where he was involved with the poor - neither of us has any idea.  While he is recently retired from Georgetown, we don't know whether he might have had a posting overseas or in Appalachia.  Don's slander the man if you don't know for sure.  His main point is that we need to life the poor up so that they can be not poor.  He is absolutely right.  Education is usually the answer to poverty (accept when it is due to the economic cycle).  Our ministry is to provide that - which is the ultimate encounter.  Sadly, the Catholic Church in America mostly educates college bound people and leaves adult literacy to others (with very few exceptions).  Every diocese should have an adult high school devoted to this - and pay the students to go.