Charity
USCCB Says Shutdown Will Have ‘Catastrophic’ Consequences For The Needy
Perhaps U.S. bishops should not have become dependent upon government to perform acts of charity. The U.S. federal government shutdown continues, with congressional lawmakers scrambling to keep food assistance to ...
Poverty Isn’t a Path to Heaven
The modern Church doesn’t love the poor as much as she loves being seen loving them. I was raised Catholic—the kind of Catholic who knew the smell of incense before ...
You Suffer, We Get the Credit
Several years ago, at the March for Life in Washington, some boys from a Catholic school in Kentucky were being harassed by a native American protester and by a group ...
Lay Responsibilities and the Order of Charity
I take it that charity has to be freely given by the person who shows charity. If I steal someone’s credit card and purchase all kinds of goods with it ...
“Government Charity” is an Oxymoron
The current immigration clash between the Trump administration and the U.S. Catholic bishops has highlighted a fundamental conflict between Church and State that has existed since the first time U.S ...