A family takes shelter Dec. 2 at the community hall of St. Antony's Parish at in Chennai, India. The heaviest rainfall in over a century caused massive flooding across the region, driving thousands from their homes, shutting auto factories and paralyzing the airport in capital Chennai.(CNS photo / Anto Akkara)
by GSR Staff
"Social and political charity is not exhausted in relationships between individuals but spreads into the network formed by these relationships, which is precisely the social and political community; it intervenes in this context seeking the greatest good for the community in its entirety."
- From the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church (Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace), paragraph 208
Today is the feast of the Immaculate Conception and is also the opening day for the Jubilee of Mercy