If we allow ourselves to become distant from the very people we purport to serve, we risk not developing authentic understandings of their lives and how we might best work in concert with one another… I appreciate Pope Francis’ active commitment to doing this: http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-homeless-pope-francis-birthday-20131217,0,2901963.story#axzz2nilBsUjW