The Heritage of Poverty
The late Helder Camara, Catholic Archbishop of Recife in Brazil, famously asked, Why is it that when I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why they are poor, they call me a communist?
Camara also posited, in a little-known monograph called 'Spiral of Violence', that the poor are not the raw material for our salvation. Really? Has anyo…
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