Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor

The reason is that the illness creates such frequent disruptive mental processes that the person is unable to perform the normal tasks involved in maintaining a residence : minimal personal hygiene, care for the housing, management of money. Throw in a lack of certain social skills and there is further erosion of self-sufficiency, self-care, self-d

If we are lost, I stressed, God will hunt us down—in love—like the good shepherd, to the last moment.

It was an embrace as tender and gentle as I have ever seen. Judy died the next morning, in the arms of her beloved.

Shea had suffered. He knew better than most about life’s ups and downs, its misunderstandings and broken relationships. He had endured the disorder of internal battles and physical disabilities. He came through it all not as a bitter, cantankerous, and introverted old man but as a human being capable of a loving response to those he trusted. Of cou

Two-thirds of those who qualify for housing assistance in the United States cannot get it because it is not available.

Occasionally in life one meets an individual who leaves an indelible imprint on the soul. Noel was such a person for me. He touched me with his holiness, for I always felt stronger and more in touch with life when Noel told me that he was praying for me. And I will always remember his laughter, whether it was ringing down a street out of the sheer

The napkins, on closer inspection, turned out to be neatly folded toilet paper.

And in spite of a million reasons for living in self-pity, he had within him—every day—the amazing capacity to make coin purses and share his soda pop with others.

This particular night, he was also bummed out by the fact that his cat had died, finished off by a mouse that was in the process of being finished off by some D-Con poison. It was heartrending to hear him talk of the cat as someone with whom he could “communicate” in a building full of people who did not talk to one another. He added that the cat s