Baltimore, Md., Jan 12, 2012 / 23:08 pm
The bishops of Maryland urged Catholics in the state to contact elected officials and ask them to consider the needs of the poor as they make public policy decisions in the upcoming year.
“Thousands of our brothers and sisters who are homeless experience the daily reality of a life in crisis,” they said in a statement released before the opening of the Maryland General Assembly’s 2012 session.
Caring for the poor is “an obligation and a requirement of true justice,” they underscored.
The Jan. 9 statement was issued by Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C., Cardinal-elect Edwin F. O’Brien, apostolic administrator of Baltimore, and Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington.