Link to a Newsbuster's piece on Moore's highly advanced, sophisticated and thoroughly self-contradictory brand of Catholicism here.
Here's a question for the "social justice" Catholic: how often did Jesus actually seek out the poor for the purpose of giving them food and redistributing wealth? His first public miracle wasn't feeding poor people...it was making wine for a party. The loaves and fishes weren't donated to a soup kitchen -- they were multiplied because people came to hear Jesus speak and he felt bad that they hadn't packed lunch.
This probably sounds like I'm saying Jesus was some kind of suburban snob who didn't care about the poor. Obviously, that's not true.
My point (and I feel like I've typed this before...why does the Internet still ignore my wisdom?!?) is that Jesus' was a spiritual ministry. Feeding the hungry was second to leading souls away from sin and damnation.
Feeding the hungry is a way to lead one's soul away from sin...so, in that sense, alms-giving and spirituality overlap. But guys like Moore seem to subscribe to an idea that a hippie-Jesus just would be cool with whatever your lifestyle is so long as you volunteer in a soup kitchen.
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