Theodicy
I've spoken to a lot of people from a standpoint of curiosity as to their agnosticism/atheism, and it seems a lot of people find the notion of an omnipotent and benevolent God troubling due to the vastness of evil in the world, particularly natural evils (e.g. cancer), but also often social evils too (e.g. poverty, etc.). I hear that an omnipotent God could not possibly be benevolent if They looked upon the state of the world and were not moved to intervene to correct things. I hear, also, that the notion of tiny personal miracles seem like a crazy intervention for God to make when there are evidently "far more pressing concerns," than an individual petition (I suppose the argument here is that if God is making interventions, why respond to someone's random petition instead of the countless prayers about poverty, etc.).
I wonder how we as Leftist Catholics answer this question of theodicy. I'm inclined to look at the suffering that God saves Their people from in the Bible (e.g. from chattel slavery in Egypt), and I also think there's something to be said that the gospel centers the life of Jesus who suffers alongside us and is killed in a humiliating and brutal way, only to overcome oppression and empire via the resurrection. I wonder what y'all think.