Our suffering world needs a prophetic Catholic church

Our suffering world needs a prophetic Catholic church

NCR

By Tony Magliano

Tony Magliano

Most Catholics – clergy and laity – were late to condemn slavery, largely absent in the civil rights movement, slow to denounce the Vietnam War, have long ignored the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and in general have remained rather quiet regarding nearly every social injustice facing our world, with the exception of abortion –and even there the vast majority of Catholics are only minimally active at best.