It is not enough to only recognize and agree with the protests of needy mothers. It is now time to join with them until the world finally listens.
If Jesus is a vine, can we really accept a theology which permits us to sit back and take without contributing anything ourselves?
Mary, an unmarried peasant girl, is pregnant. Though scarcely an intimidating figure, her words in the song ascribed to her in Luke’s Gospel—known as “The Magnificat”—ought to make those of us who are privileged people stop to think, if not to fear.
