From early in his book "Passion and Power" (page 83) Father Shay Cullen asks this question:
"I was soon trudging out into the slums with a small band of brothers, making our way through crowds of poor hungry people, many of whom shuffled along from weakness or deformity. I passed emaciated mothers feeding skinny babies from deflated breasts and naked children with potbellies playing in the filthy gutters. It was a depressing sight and, while I walked with the brothers through this wilderness of human suffering. I longed to be able to change it all. In a world of vast wealth and riches and mountains of surplus food, why were so many starving and dying in pain and loneliness, rejected and abandoned?"
"I was soon trudging out into the slums with a small band of brothers, making our way through crowds of poor hungry people, many of whom shuffled along from weakness or deformity. I passed emaciated mothers feeding skinny babies from deflated breasts and naked children with potbellies playing in the filthy gutters. It was a depressing sight and, while I walked with the brothers through this wilderness of human suffering. I longed to be able to change it all. In a world of vast wealth and riches and mountains of surplus food, why were so many starving and dying in pain and loneliness, rejected and abandoned?"
