We must change. We mistake cause for conversion . I need to get people all fired up about the cause and somehow touch their lives. If I want to talk to farmers, good crowds would come if I said I know how to raise the price of soybeans or corn. But if I talk about the need for good care of the land and some other things, the crowd would fall off dramatically.
Causes are needs.
I just find people who are interested in the cause but that's not social justice in the sense that I'm talking about. That's why they continue to fail because they mistake cause for conversion. And once the cause is no longer one, we've got the same person we had before. We have to attach to the cause, the Good News of the love of God. Those are just some of the reasons why I believe that we have not had greater effect, in terms of the Catholic Church, on our society in this country or elsewhere.