Fr. Thomas Massaro SJ, Professor of Moral Theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry:
As diffuse and disputed as its agenda may be, the Occupy movement has called unprecedented attention to the great imbalances in power and material outcome experienced by Americans today. One could quibble with the movement’s tactics and demands or even with its math (that overly simplistic motif of the 99% and the 1%), but you would have to possess a very large blind spot indeed not to notice the ambient social inequities surrounding us today.
both Catholic social teaching and the Occupy movement challenge the tenets of a market fundamentalism that throws up its hands when workers press for greater protections than the laws of supply and demand alone might yield
