'The Church has a tendency to confine itself to liturgy and…

'The Church has a tendency to confine itself to liturgy and preaching and that. Which is the easy way out. You can do that but you are not getting involved with the dirt, you are not dirtying your hands by getting involved in actual situation and doing something about it. I think is the role of the Church to trying stop people, to end situations where people are suffering. The Church has a moral obligation to get involved, to get stuck into it and to get into it and stop it.' Father Alec Reid, C.Ss.R. (1931 – 22 November 2013)