Chatting with the Homeless

Dominican Friar John Vianney Russel has made a habit of talking with homeless people and shares what he has learned. He doesn’t have all the answers and, in fact, we agree we are not even clear on the problem; but we start to pull on some of the threads—spiritual, psychological, material, political—of this very tangled knot. Brother John Vianney also talks about his own vocation and how we might listen for the voice of the Holy Spirit.

• The forum that Brother John Vianney refers to is Defenders of the Catholic Faith
• Paul VI, Populorum Progression (1967)
• Lee Ohanian, Hoover Institution, "Despite Spending $1.1 Billion, San Francisco Sees Its Homelessness Problems Spiral Out Of Control" (2022)