Crosscare, the social support agency of the Archdiocese of Dublin, is asking for public support for its Food Poverty Service as hundreds of families are now seeking help to obtain basic food supplies in the run-up to Christmas.
Crosscare’s Food Poverty Service has met almost 800 families and individuals in the past year, including 1,000 children. To date, the demands of Christmas time are already putting extra pressure on people and families that have just about been able to cope this year.
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Love—caritas—will always prove necessary, even in the most just society. There is no ordering of the State so just that it can eliminate the need for a service of love. Whoever wants to eliminate love is preparing to eliminate man as such. There will always be suffering which cries out for consolation and help. There will always be loneliness. There will always be situations of material need where help in the form of concrete love of neighbor is indispensable.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
