Misery has no rights, but the Gospel implies that the poor do. Therefore, it is time to move further with the poor. Conversion for a Catholic means more than doing good things for the poor. The Gospel confronts us with Jesus who was poor and his disciples today are the poor with their many faces. Let us not only do something for the poor, but share with them in changing the unjust situation.
Misery is the only violence.
The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate who serve in Precious Blood Parish in Chicago, have also ministered under Dom Helder Camara. James Kohmetscher, Fr. Dario Rupiper, Fr. Josenildo Tavares, and Fr. Jerry McGovern were schooled by Som Helder in Recife from 1963 until now, and they have served here at Precious Blood at various times since the Oblates took the parish in 1985.