{"id":253,"date":"2010-06-25T17:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T21:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/?p=253"},"modified":"2010-06-25T17:17:43","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T21:17:43","slug":"standing-up-for-the-poor-and-the-vulnerable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/standing-up-for-the-poor-and-the-vulnerable\/","title":{"rendered":"Standing Up For the Poor and the Vulnerable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our Catholic Teaching calls us to stand up for the poor and the vulnerable.\u00a0 The fourth of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.renewaloffaith.org\/sj\/sj7principles.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching<\/a> speaks of this.\u00a0 Jesus calls us to help the hungry, thirsty, and those without shelter or clothing (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/nab\/bible\/matthew\/matthew25.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew 25:31-46<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our care for the poor and the vulnerable can take two forms, <em>charity<\/em> and <em>justice<\/em>.\u00a0 <em>Charity<\/em> is helping them in a direct way such as donating food or clothing.\u00a0 <em>Justice <\/em>is to stand up for the poor and the vulnerable in public policy.\u00a0 The basic question here is do the laws (or proposed bills) help or hurt the poor and the vulnerable?\u00a0 But how are we to keep aware of proposed policies and legislation?<\/p>\n<p>Our U.S. bishops provide us with help here.\u00a0 For issues facing the national government check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/sdwp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/sdwp\/<\/a>\u00a0paying particular attention to the links on the left for &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usccb.org\/sdwp\/takeaction.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Take Action<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;Issue Campaigns.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bishops of each state have some of the same resources.\u00a0 In New York State, it is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyscatholic.org\" target=\"_blank\">New York State Catholic Conference <\/a>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyscatholic.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.nyscatholic.org<\/a>) that helps us stay informed on issues in New York such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nyscatholic.org\/pages\/news\/show_newsDetails.asp?id=343\" target=\"_blank\">Reproductive Health Act<\/a>.\u00a0 The NYS Catholic Conference can be found on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Stand up for people in need!\u00a0 Jesus did!<\/p>\n<p>Peace,<\/p>\n<p>Fr. Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Catholic Teaching calls us to stand up for the poor and the vulnerable.\u00a0 The fourth of the Seven Principles of Catholic Social Teaching speaks of this.\u00a0 Jesus calls us to help the hungry, thirsty, and those without shelter or clothing (Matthew 25:31-46).\u00a0 Our care for the poor and the vulnerable can take two forms, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/standing-up-for-the-poor-and-the-vulnerable\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Standing Up For the Poor and the Vulnerable&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMTPk-45","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":254,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions\/254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.renewaloffaith.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}