[NEWS] On Romero Day, leaders get to know the poor
From CatholicPhilly.com:Â
In what was billed as the Romero Day of Commitment, business and civic leaders joined Archbishop Charles Chaput on Monday, March 23 to see homelessness and the face of hunger close up.
They fanned out to the streets of Philadelphia and across the river into Camden, N.J., to tour facilities that serve the homeless and programs that address poverty, especially food insecurity — so dubbed because while families may not be starving, they do not know from where their next meal will come.
At a meeting Monday evening at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center in Philadelphia, more than a dozen participants gathered before heading out to the street. They included Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, Jay Devine of the public relations firm Devine & Partners and Sister of Mercy Mary Scullion.
