text: To the extent that this dialogue on the history and reason behind Catholic Social Thought and  Action  has had to be written and pontificated is and of itself a complete and utter tragedy in my eyes. The patriarchy continues to sow its seeds to the highest bidder. Any intelligent, socially aware person who was alive in some way during the pre Vatican II and Vatican II experience would know this and has known this for decades.
  Social Action in World War II was Pope John the Twenty Third- exiled by the Curia -  to Bulgaria getting Jewish adults and children out of the hands of the Nazi's. He could have been killed. The actions of nuns in those countries hiding folks, the nuns and priests walking in Selma. The worker priests in France. St. Emily - both of them in France and Italy working with those no one wanted to touch, or talk too , or help.
  The history of Judaism - of course it is there- and in all great religious and or philosophical  great thinking. Actions not words.