Inner Conversion and Social Responsibility

There comes a time when belief must face the conditions of the world directly. Spiritual conviction without action is empty. If faith is real, it demands attention to poverty, exploitation, and systems that degrade human dignity. It requires more than charity—it calls for change. The injustice we tolerate shapes the kind of people we become. Silence benefits the powerful. Avoidance maintains the status quo. A life of integrity begins with personal conversion and extends outward to every relationship, institution, and structure. Without a deep personal conversion, no one can become an instrument for the conversion of the world. We cannot separate spiritual life from the world we live in. Poverty, violence, and exclusion are not unfortunate accidents—they are results of choices. A genuine spiritual path confronts those choices with clarity, humility, and a will to act.

Go now with the courage to be changed,
so that your life may help change the world.

(inspired by Dom Hélder Câmara: Essential Writings; The Conversions of a Bishop)