Part I
"Contrast that with the modern tendency to label such advocacy as a sign of emotional altruism run amok. Its [sic] deemed the soft approach which leads to dependency on government assistance and immaturity. Those who raise such charges usually do so in the name of the preferential option for the objective. Social and economic prosperity ride on the shoulders of hard, impersonal facts."
This second paragraph is not the child of the first.  Love for those suffering is not advocacy but, where it existed, Jesus' advocacy was to us as individuals to care for others and, later, the Church took on a portion of that role.  He never went to Rome to advocate on behalf of the poor, never to Pilate, never to Herod, and only chided the Pharisees (again, in their role as individuals).