A man has made his bed on the bench in Pamphilj Park in Rome.
The function of silence in the life of the privileged is to be able to hear the voices of the oppressed and to change things.
Chittister goes on to say, "The demands of the poor irritate us because of welfare fraud, because of our own desires to accumulate, because of our commitment to the truisms of rugged individualism. But the needs of the poor are not ours to judge. What we forget is that God will judge the poor on honesty. The rest of us God will judge on generosity."
Joan Chittister
Chittister goes on to say, "The demands of the poor irritate us because of welfare fraud, because of our own desires to accumulate, because of our commitment to the truisms of rugged individualism. But the needs of the poor are not ours to judge. What we forget is that God will judge the poor on honesty. The rest of us God will judge on generosity."
Joan Chittister