Father Mario comes to the conclusion that the underlying problems, the social causes of abandonment, maladaptation and social exclusion remain yet unresolved. He decides to live in the Neapolitan slums, together with the Little Sisters of Charles de Foucauld, at the core of a network of voluntary groups of Christian origin that look at the Second Vatican Council as a spiritual and civil source and inspiration. «10 December 1962. If somebody asks me why I am here in the slums, I must honestly reply I don't really know. I could reply: “Because I love you”. If someone from outside addresses me the same question, what do you think I should reply? “Because I love them”. Even this sounds like a sentence that has become rusty by centuries of abandonment. We have become Pharisees and always prefer considering the poor as the sole responsibles of their misery.» Mario Borrelli, Un prete nelle baracche, La Locusta, Vicenza, 1967. The return to the lay state Following a short course in sociology at the TUFT University, he enrolled at the London School of Economics and was awarded a Master in Social Administration . He also made the decision to leave priesthood as his personal, moral and political, views are incompatible with those of the Neapolitan Christian church. The conservative position of the local Christian church appeared to him to be in contrast with the Christian mandate. The return to the laity state seemed to be a natural step for him, rather than an afterthought. He remained a member of the Congregation of San Filippo Neri and subsequently married. «...I have never understood in what way the Kingdom of God could be incarnated in public life as a clan of groups of human interest that would use God as flag and tablecloth for their daily meal. In what way an elected boss, through his patronal-Mafia network, could bring God to the Neapolitans and make them more honest and good examples of Christianity. When I realized that this Church felt the message too metaphorically and remained distant and absent from the poor, I felt cheated in my vocation. I felt as a prisoner, a wheel of a mechanism that tended to save and perpetuate itself instead of saving and helping others.» Mario Borrelli, Tanquam Peripsema, Naples, 1970. The Materdei Community Centre The next step is to reflect the activities of the House of the Urchins in