By reconnecting the building to the power supply and breaking the seals that prevented the building from having power, the papal almoner broke the law. But he was unrepentant.

“The hour is serious, poverty is increasing; the common good is threatened,” Haiti’s bishops wrote. “The country is on the brink of collapse!”

We may not treat those who live on a park bench and Park Avenue as equals, but the Constitution reminds us that we should.

Soup lines are longer, more people depend on charities to get by, and more live on the streets or have joined the burgeoning populations of Argentina’s impoverished villas.

I was standing in the dumpster looking for food when I was overwhelmed by the thought that I am feeding my family garbage.

Whether the site will be developed into luxury apartments or low-income housing remains the subject of contentious debate.