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Article: Group may bring us closer to being Christian. (roundtable of Catholics and Protestants meeting in Philadelphia, PA on serving the poor)(Editorial)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- May 9, 1997
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Social justice -- like politics -- is often the art of the possible. These days the possible is being affected by a shift to the right in our language, our politics and our expectations of government.
The social justice groups, of course, have not given up their convictions or their mandate to help poor people. But they do have to operate in a society where what once was considered "right" has become the political "center."
Such is the sociopolitical setting for the unusual roundtable gathering of evangelical, Protestant and Catholic charitable and social service/social justice groups that met in Philadelphia April 26 for a "conversation" in support ...