Editorials and prefaces
Loving so as to understand, understanding so as to love.
You see the families who live in slums. You try to understand them, to perceive their reactions to your fraternal (…) Read more
The poorest, partners in the future of our world
I am thinking of the families uprooted from their villages
in the southern Sahara. Extreme poverty has forced
them to take to (…) Read more
Founded on an act of faith
The ATD Fourth World movement was founded on an act of faith. Its creators believe that human beings find within (…) Read more
Our political struggle: eradicate extreme poverty
Our ideologies and class loyalties aside, our political struggle is about the eradication of extreme poverty and social exclusion. That’s (…) Read more
This Christmas time
When I was a child, between 4 and 13, I would go down to the Bon Pasteur convent at midday (…) Read more
Turning history into fraternity
Humanity appears to be floundering in its history like a deaf, dumb and blind person desperately seeking their way forward. (…) Read more
Work That Procures Honour
Even the most disparaged jobs can give those who do them a sense of purpose and dignity in the eyes (…) Read more
For people who love justice
I want to speak to you about an abused people; abused because they are on the margins of where rights (…) Read more
The basic human right to have a holiday
It was 1959. I had been in the Noisy-le-Grand camp for over two years. I was tired; my nights were (…) Read more
From working to having a trade
Making the poor work at any job, whatever it may be, so long as they are useful, has always been (…) Read more