Sentence examples for preferential option from inspiring English sources

"He always, always has a preferential option for the poor".

In Scotland, they echoed many of ours – a love of diversity and a preferential option for those fleeing persecution.

The "preferential option for the poor" demands both individual and collective action, including the acts of the state.

It is impossible to justify this as a serious exercise of the preferential option for the poor.

They were particularly taken with the Peruvian philosopher and priest Gustavo Gutiérrez's conception of a "preferential option for the poor".

Liberation theology has its roots in Latin America and understands Christianity to operate with a "preferential option for the poor".

There, officials agreed that the church should give a "preferential option for the poor," a tenet of Francis' pontificate.

The results indicate that this universal photocatalyst is a preferential option for photocatalytic degradation of various environmental contaminants.

The conclusion is an obvious one: we are all leaders of a church that has taken a preferential option for the rich".

You don't have to be an epidemiologist to realize that infectious diseases make their own preferential option for the poor — they afflict them more, and worse".

Among other things, the conference endorsed Catholics' taking a "preferential option for the poor," committing themselves primarily to serving the impoverished, a theme emphasized in liberation theology.