Living Justice, Thomas Massaro/ Section 7

What I took from this section on Colonialism and Economic Development is that, Catholic/ Christian teachings call their followers to be aware of the large and disturbing gaps between the world's richest and poorest lands. The Church insists that all people have a moral obligation if not to act on it, then to at least  care deeply about world poverty and try to do all they can to address this horrible thing in humanity. The other thing Catholic social teaching calls us to do, is to 'ponder the causes of these problems and to offer suggestions for improvement and ways to make our world a better place, free from the disparages of poverty and inequality. Just as this section says, progress is measured by baby steps and with each and every person taking baby steps to making our world a better place, eventually we will reach that common ground we want have, which is equality and a better life for all people on our earth!