Rather than accepting it as normal that we have different views on health policy, he happily slanders the millions of Venezuelans who dissent from the government line, delegitimating our views by accusing us of thinking it a crime to want to devote more resources to the poor.
In 1943, while working as an elementary school teacher, Ms. Lubich began meeting with other women, vowing to devote their lives to the poor.
Last week a middle-ranking officer of the Salvation Army, who gave up a well-paid job to devote his life to the poor, attempted to convince me that homosexuality is a mortal sin.
"Suddenly, everyone was talking about poor people," said Lilliam Barrios-Paoli, a former nun who has devoted herself to the poor as a public official and is now a charity executive.
Echoing the beliefs of St. Francis, whose name he took, it called for a church devoted to the poor, a church that returned to its roots and the original healing ministry of Jesus.
It's not news that a Republican administration would try to slash regulations, but it's striking that even after running an often populist-sounding campaign, Trump seems devoted to allowing the poor to be victimized by big business.
Podestá was devoted to the poor and the victims of successive military régimes in his homeland.
In fact, Chmielowski eventually changed his name to Brother Albert, and devoted his life to the poor, founding the Albertine Brothers.
Meanwhile, the archbishop, a man devoted to the poor, a man whose shyness sometimes caused him to stutter, had been indecorously pitched from his balcony.
Since so many city services are devoted to the poor, the budget will be balanced on their backs almost by definition.
