We are not to simply bandage the wounds
of victims beneath the wheels of injustice,
we are to drive a spoke into the wheel itself.
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Saint Peter Claver and, more recently, Saint Maria Bernarda Bütler gave their lives for the poorest and the most marginalized, and thus showed the path to real revolution, the evangelical one, not the ideological one, which truly sets people and societies free from the slavery of yesterday, and unfortunately, also of today. In this sense, “taking the first step"... means approaching, bending down, touching the flesh of the wounded and neglected bothers and sisters; and to do so with Christ, the Lord who became a slave for us. Thanks to him, there is hope because he is mercy and peace.
--Pope Francis,
September 13, 2023
Image source: Pope Francis greets a participant in the World Day of the Poor in Rome, Nov. 16, 2017, https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251539/pope-francis-no-christian-is-exempt-from-aiding-the-poor
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