Nice to know there's one man of the cloth more interested in God than Mammon (as I read the Church of England Pension Fund is in a joint law suit against TESCO for over £100 million damages over investment decisions. So much for all that rubbish about 'consider the lilies of the valley' Eh?)
Here we go again. Time for the Saturday Sermon where we all somehow beat ourselves up for the fact that life by its very nature is unfair.
Here's a map of countries with foodbanks worldwide. Over 40 countries and mostly Christian (at least your brand of superstition gets people up off their arses to do something rather than muttering 'Inshallah' and passing by on the other side of the camel trail as the Mohammedans do!) The poor will always be with us.
If you want to make yourself feel guilty for happening to be fairly rich so be it. In the mean time I'm off buying Veblen goods for the kids for Christmas!
I donate to Barnados but don't spend all my time worrying that we a are somehow a country which is especially cruel to children.
Here's another chart showing the drop in world poverty due to the fall of socialism and the rise of wonderful capitalism over the past few decades:-
As I've said before the poorest person in the UK now has a higher standard of living than my lower middle class family in the fifties. Most of them are in that position due to their own doings or stupidity or occasionally bad luck but since all benefits, health care, education etc are non contributory should be laughing their metaphorical threadbare socks off.
I really don't know how much more you wish to redistribute the wealth of others (by 2020 the top 1% of earners will be paying 30% of UK income tax) so that hundreds of thousands can continue to take much more out of society than they put in just because they happen to be living in the same country as me?