The further we get from the needs and the lives of the poor, the easier it is to forget that we have duties to them at all.
Poverty
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Poverty should not make a good life impossible
While American society is especially good among wealthy countries at producing poverty, it is especially bad at making the lives of the poor tolerable.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Oscar winner ‘Anora’: The Cinderella story that wasn’t
At its heart, “Anora” is a film about loneliness.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis: Christian faith that does not work for the poor becomes ‘harmless devotion’
Pope Francis said that Christian faith must disturb the powers that be.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
How to preach about poverty to wealthy parishioners—without guilt and shame
On “Preach” this week, Father John Unni reflects on his homily from three years ago. “I like what that guy is saying, but I find it even more challenging,” he says. “I’m wrestling with these readings in a different way, a deeper way.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
USCCB meeting recap: anti-poverty campaign and Eucharistic Revival plans
U.S. bishops met for a plenary assembly to discuss various topics including mental health, poverty and youth ministry, as well as hearing proposals from the National Review Board on how to combat sex abuse in the church.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
U.S. bishops should renew support for C.C.H.D, one of the church’s primary anti-poverty investments
For 50 years, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has served as one of the church’s primary investments in fighting poverty. The U.S. bishops must reaffirm their support for this initiative.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
A preacher should offer the congregation a challenge—not cheap grace
Listen to Gemma’s homily for the Fifth Sunday of Easter, Year B, in which she explains how her experience of poverty in Brazil gave radical significance to Christ’s words: “Make your home in me as I make mine in you.”
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Pope Francis on World Day of the Poor: ‘Poverty is a scandal’
The material, cultural and spiritual poverties that exist in the world are a “scandal” that Christians are called to address by putting their God-given capacity for charity and love into action, Pope Francis said.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Joe Manchin was no centrist
Senator Joe Manchin, who announced last week he would not run for re-election, blocked efforts to fight climate change and child poverty. That doesn’t make him a ‘centrist.’