November 13, 2015

"The core of the vocation to service is to embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important, those whom Matthew lists in the final judgment on love: the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison."

- Final document / Action Plan from the International Symposium on the Pastoral Care of the Road/Street in response to the phenomenon of street children, street women and their families, held at Vatican City, Sept. 13-17, 2015, and described in Clare Nolan's Things that get lost, published on Global Sisters Report