text: Our parish makes a big deal about "fair trade" Sunday.
  
  A few social justice types take up about 1/3rd of the narthex 2x a month to lay out all sorts of "fair trade" coffees, candies, snacks.
  
  And I thought about it.
  
  How is this fair to the mom and pop coffee store 1 block down from our Church?
  
  They have to pay labor costs.
  They have to pay unemployment insurance/taxes.
  They have to pay for advertising.
  They have to pay for utilities, rental space, accountants, etc.
  
  How is the Catholic Church being "fair" to the businesses in the neighborhoods?
  
  And more...what the social justice types are doing is to entice all of the overweight Catholics to feed their senses, and giving them the false sense of "charity" as they buy and gorge themselves.
  
  How good and fair is all this?
  
  But it's for the 'feeling' of helping that motivates the whole sorry mess.  A sugary charity!!
  
  the social justice types feel like they're doing good..and the fat Catholics can feel like they're doing charity!