Humiliation of the 'little people'

"But there was a dark shadow over everything; had people like them any right to laugh? How could one really laugh in a world where captains of industry are allowed to line their own pockets and make hundreds of mistakes, whereas the little people who had always done their best were humiliated and squashed?"

When was it written? By Hans Fallada in Little Man, What Now. It was written in 1933 in Berlin before the Nazis came to power.

Whatever changes.

Where were the bishops and what were they saying about this horror? Pope Benedict constantly criticises a philosophy or relativism. Where was the voice of the church in supporting the 'little man' and condemning the oppressor?

How really is the church responding to the current misery of the 'little man'?

I think of rarefied discussions of whether or not people may receive communion in the hand. Close to where I am writing this there is a Catholic church where I may not receive Communion in the hand at certain Masses. Discussion about whether or not people wear religious habits in public and the dole cut by eight euro. Low paid workers paying a new Universal Social Charge and all because the bankers lined their pockets.

It is interesting how so many bankers and other pocket liners enjoy the old liturgy and how their friendly priests fulfil their needs.

Time for another Strumpet City.

It is always intersting how progressive church communities compare financially with ones which offer the old conservative words and ritual.