Leaving a Mark

Liz Keating teaching hospitality students.

Michele Gierck is a former Palms Program Participant to El Salvador in the mid 1990’s and wrote the following article for the Australian Catholics Summer 2020/2021 newsletter.

As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world’s problems or, for that matter, to any problems. Inequality is the root of social ills.
Pope Francis (Joy of the Gospel 202)