We Don’t Ask: Are You Catholic or Not? We Ask: Are You Hungry?

He never wanted to be an administrator. He wanted to be a therapist, and to work in a food pantry. Instead, J. Antonio Fernández has a job that no layman had held in more than a century.He leads Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York. Not one organization, but 82 of them, 9,000 employees, more than 400,000 people served a year. And he still turns up at the food distributions most weeks.Ask him what people get wrong about the work, and he doesn’t hesitate.We talk about the federal money that has disappeared, about being a landlord in a city debating rent freezes, and about the one thing he is certain no technology will ever replace.It’s J. Antonio Fernandez on The Business of Giving.