Eradication of Poverty is a Moral Commitment

In an address delivered during the "Substantive Session" of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi C.S., permanent observer to the Office of the United Nations and Specialized Institutions in Geneva, said,

Poverty elimination demands an integration between the mechanisms that produce wealth and the mechanisms for the distribution of its benefits at the international, regional and national levels.

Perhaps this could be demonstrated by mechanisms for the distribution of wealth that would reduce disparties between richer and poorer parishes within each diocese, and between richer and poorer dioceses around the world.

(via Diogenes at Off the Record)

Update: At Musings of a Pertinacious Papist, a report by Ralph Roister-Doister on The fate of the inner city parish. When a local politician criticizes parish closings in Buffalo,

Local commentators, echoing the smugness of suburban Catholics, professed wonderment that the diocese should be criticized for running itself like the business it is.