The Least of These

Amy Welborn's Open Book blog has an interesting post about a sanctuary for the homeless in San Francisco - where the homeless are housed in the nave of St. Boniface Roman Catholic Church. Go take a peek at the interesting discussion about the "appropriate" Catholic response to homelessness over at Amy's.

As an aside, I just want to know where all these homeless people were between January 1993 and January 2001. We heard news account after news account about the homeless throughout the 1980s and early 1990s. Then suddenly, beginning in 1993, nothing. I honestly do not recall seeing a single news story about the homeless during the entire 8-year-period of 1993-2000.

And then just as suddenly, the news accounts of the homeless began to pick up again starting around March of 2001.

Since homelessness has been a severe societal problem throughout that entire time period, I can't for the life of me figure out what the explanation is for the dearth of news stories covering the issue during the 1990s.