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T mean that both literally and metaphorically.
The African-American churches of urban America have provided practically the only sanctuary in these violent, unpredictable places, and even they have not been immune to the degradation of dark, urban life. I've learned, too, about my own faith and the restorative power of belief. I've also learned that a welfare program can provide nothing to equal the power of faith in reclaiming lives from the clutches of poverty and despair. Inspired by Catholic social teaching to live in material and spiritual solidarity with the poor, we moved our church into a low-income neighborhood, one we later discovered was one of the most violent in Boston. Poverty, drugs, hopelessness were the vic- tors in Dorchester.