[Mrs. Don-o]

That's neither kind nor just to the homeless themselves, who are sleeping in their own urine, nor to the congregants, many of them kids and many elderly, who have to step through piles of stinking rubbish and human waste to get into or out of church for weekday masses.

Having lived in SF awhile back, I can also testify that many of the homeless are frighteningly aggressive, and can get quite menacing (as mentally ill and drug-addicted people do) when attempting to intimidate old ladies into giving them cash.

The "water sprinkler" question is almost moot, since they have now all been removed: but what now? Forcible removal? Cops at the doors every day?

Nobody wants a "solution" involving barbed wire, dogs or handcuffs. So seriously, as a caring person: what do you say?

[RobbyS]

Those people are vagrants. The cops needs to make them vacate. Let them go to shelters.

[DaveMSmith]

but what now? Forcible removal? Cops at the doors every day?

Ummm.... MINISTER to them?

Pope Francis builds public showers and a barbershop for the homeless of Rome

[Timber Rattler]

So seriously, as a caring person: what do you say?

Luke 14:12-14

Then Jesus said to his host, "When you give a luncheon or dinner, do not invite your friends, your brothers or relatives, or your rich neighbors; if you do, they may invite you back and so you will be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous."

[Chickensoup]

I think it was a great idea. These churches regularly have people voiding and moving their bowels on the foyers. So hose them. Makes sense.