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Thoughts on Social Justice
By Jeremy | September 6, 2006
"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist."Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador (1917-1980; assassinated):
“The word of God is like the light of the sun. It illuminates beautiful things, but also things which we would rather not see.â€Â
“The church must cry out by command of God. God has meant the earth and all it contains for the use of the whole human race. Created wealth should reach all in just form, under the aegis of justice and accompanied by charity…. It saddens and concerns us to see the selfishness with which means and dispositions are found to nullify the just wage of the harvesters. How we would wish that the joy of this rain of rubies and all the harvests of the earth would not be darkened by the tragic sentence of the Bible: ‘Behold, the day of wage laborers that cut your fields defrauded by you is crying out, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ear of the Lord.’ [James 5:4]
“The Bible alone is insufficient. It is necessary for the Church to take up the Bible and make it a Living Word again. Not in order to dole out psalms and parables word for word, but in order to apply it to the concrete situation in which the Word of God is preached at this time.†(Homily, 16 July 1978)
“Those who surrender to the service of the poor through the love of Christ will live like the grain of wheat that dies ... the harvest comes because of the grain that dies…. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses, that God wants, that God demands of us.â€Â
"When the church hears the cry of the oppressed it cannot but denounce the social structures that give rise to and perpetuate the misery from which the cry arises."Archbishop Desmond Tutu:
"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."
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