Rome. Truth.
The article Helping Hand for Homeless in the Rome News Tribune yesterday took on a very serious issue. And it did so with very little research, knowledge, or effectiveness, and with a gratingly familiar, oft refuted tone. So much for accurate, unbiased reporting.
Congratulations, Rome, on your arrogance. Or at least that of your leaders, who are wholly convinced, even after a number of meetings whose end result blatantly refuted the pompous idea, that we are simply too generous to the poor, the hungry, the homeless and anyone else in need. According to elected city officials (apparently having already received via next-day-air city-wide golden tickets to heaven for premature exemplary service) the whole city can now sit back on its haunches, having fulfilled any moral or ethical responsibility to its fellow man, and declare its work done. Funny that most of these leaders have only just noticed that Rome has a homeless population.
Looking down on a city that boasts such a high Christian population, Jesus must be hanging his head in shame. It seems Jesus could give his very life, God could give his only son, but Rome must take great care to be sure it does not offer one bed, one coat, one loaf too many.
Tell me, Rome: who do you really serve?