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September 21, 2022

Good Versus Judgmental Judgements

We are not to be judgmental, looking for reasons to condemn others. We are meant...

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August 24, 2022

Society Must Help The Exploited Pay Off Their Debts

Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath showed us the way people, trying to better themselves, can...

July 2022

July 21, 2022

Truth And Compassion Are Necessary In Discussions On Abortion

Christians are expected to be “speaking the truth in love” (Eph. 4:15a RSV), for, as...

July 20, 2022

Hospitality

Hospitality has an important place in the Christian life. We are meant to recognize the...

July 14, 2022

The Anti-Catholic CatholicVote ?

There is a long history of anti-Catholic bigotry being used to attack Catholics in the...

June 2022

June 01, 2022

There Is No Charity Without Justice

True charity, caritas, is love. If we want to act with true charity, love would...

May 2022

May 24, 2022

Our Words Should Be Used To Build Each Other Up

“And he called the people to him and said to them, ‘Hear and understand: not...

April 2022

April 27, 2022

We Should Bear Each Other’s Burden

Christianity, teaching us that we should love everyone, tells us that we are called to...

September 2021

September 01, 2021

Hospitality To All

Spiritual masters not only teach us that we must be hospitable to others, but we...

June 2021

June 16, 2021

Avoid Calumny

Calumny is a grave sin. Everyone deserves to be treated with charity. No one should...

May 2021

May 26, 2021

Actions Are More Important Than Words

Actions speak louder than words, which is why we should be more concerned about doing...

February 2021

February 15, 2021

Venerable Felix Maria Ghebreamlak And Ecumenism

From the very beginning of Christian history, there have been conflicts and divisions among Christians....

February 14, 2021

Weak Faith And The Fast

Some who has a weak faith nonetheless still has faith. One cannot be weak in...

January 2021

January 20, 2021

Share With Others

“But if any one has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet...

December 2020

December 21, 2020

Working For Truth And Justice Requires Charity

“So,” Peter tell us, we are to “put away all malice and all guile and...

December 06, 2020

St. Nicholas And Our Obligation To Charity

Saint Nicholas, beloved Archbishop of Myra, more than believed in the Christian faith, he lived...

December 04, 2020

Do Not Kill (Murder): Promoting Life Over Ideology

Thou shalt not kill (cf. Ex. 20:13). We are told we must respect life, because...

November 2020

November 22, 2020

To Honor God, We Must Take Care Of Others

Through baptism, we have been incorporated into the body of Christ. Joining in with Christ,...

November 18, 2020

Do Not Confuse The Demands Of Justice With Charity

Often, those who write on or discuss the need for government to work for the...

November 02, 2020

Jesus, Ideologies, And The Poor

A few minutes after a statue a statue of Jesus, depicted as a homeless man...

September 2020

September 01, 2020

St. Macarius And The Pagan Priest

“Know this, my beloved brethren. Let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak,...

July 2020

July 30, 2020

Greed, Charity, And Reformation

The love of money, avarice, is a root for all evil, for it takes us...

July 28, 2020

Faithless Faith And Ineffective Prayers

For the Christian, faith alone, if that is taken to mean belief alone, is imaginative...

July 26, 2020

The Common Good And The Feeding of the Five Thousand

The feeding of the five thousand (which really, was more than five thousand, because the...

May 2020

May 08, 2020

The Walking Self-Righteous Dead

Those who are self-righteous, those who are so self-absorbed in their own ideas of righteousness...

April 2020

April 07, 2020

Grace or Judgment

The desert fathers and mothers wanted to establish a utopian like community in the desert....

April 02, 2020

Closing Houses of Worship During a Pandemic Does Not Violate Religious Liberty

With COVID-19 exponentially spreading across the world, quarantines have been put in place, restricting where...

March 2020

March 27, 2020

Prayer, Fasting and Almsgiving Work Together

Prayer, fasting and almsgiving are three key elements of a Christian life. While the church...

March 24, 2020

Christians Must Promote the Common Good, and Not Scapegoat Others, During the Coronavirus Pandemic

The Black Plague led to all kinds of scapegoating as people wanted to find someone...

March 12, 2020

Mass-less is not Faithless

In early Christian times, the period of the Great Fast, that is, Lent, a time...

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