Recently, I read an article from the New York Times that was examining the interesting convergence of homeless individuals and participants in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
North Minneapolis is a resilient community despite the many times it finds itself in the middle of a storm’s eye. A number of different storms have plagued the area over the years, some of them simultaneously. It has seen more than its fair share of poverty, gang violence, joblessness and racial exclusion.
Forty short years ago, the Office of Urban Affairs, precursor to the Catholic Charities’ Office for Social Justice, was born.
The office was a necessary response by the church to the social, economic and racial unrest of the 1960s and 1970s. But the efforts of this one office were not enough.
