Quotable Quote

“When I hear that they’re closing churches and closing schools because of not enough money, I think, when did money become God? … When you’re closing down schools, you’re closing down the medium of evangelization. When you’re closing down churches, you’re closing down the medium of evangelization … Rather than being the church of the poor, we are in danger of becoming the church for the poor once we take care of the rich. Am I telling the truth?”
(African American Sr. Jamie Phelps, OP.  Keynote address at  2006 Convocation
of the National Association of Parish Catechetical Directors)