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5 Essential Principles of Poverty-Alleviation
Posted by Ismael Hernandez
When I entered into the life of inner city ministry I moved into an environment that soaked me in a vision of the world that informed our activities. The ministry was called African Caribbean American Catholic Center and it operated in the inner city areas of Southwest Florida. Belonging to the Catholic Diocese of Venice, it was a great place to serve.
There, a call to action was consistent and it was based on wonderful ideas such as “solidarity” and the “care of the poor.” For the most part, activity controlled our life of ministry. Conversation and even an occasional debate occurred but we never arrived at a challenge of our most basic assumptions about the poor and about our activities. I entered the ministry as youth director and I was constantly on the move. Our intentions were good and we thought that they were consistent with loving the poor, as we are commanded. It was as if the power of the will was at the helm and the call of reason was only instrumental.
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