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Almsgiving

My confreres, our inheritance is the poor, the poor; pauperibus evangelizare misit me. What happiness,...

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Unmercenaries

The first of November is the third of three different feast days dedicated to two...

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August 23, 2019

Prideful Debates Can Turn People Away From The Truth

Knowledge is good, but knowledge without wisdom and charity easily leads us astray. We tend...

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July 07, 2019

Christians Must Choose Between Mammon or Christ, Avarice or Charity

Early Christian moral teaching consistently warned Christians against the evils of avarice, understanding it was...

June 2019

June 12, 2019

We Must Help The Poor Now Or Face The Repercussions of Our Injustices In the Future

In Scripture. God speaks to the leaders of the peoples, telling them that they must...

April 2019

April 30, 2019

Attacking Pope Francis, Far-Right Nationalists Reject Basic Catholic Principles

The Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, in May 2019, will be having a plenary session...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

We Must Go With Those In Need of Our Companionship

“Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the...

January 2019

January 30, 2019

What Would You Do?

If Jesus was at the border, poor and destitute, on the run from brigands and...

January 10, 2019

Abraham The Migrant

Abraham, the great patriarch and prophet, was called by God to live the life of...

November 2018

November 29, 2018

American Sodomites Demand A Wall

The city of Sodom was a city of extreme selfishness and luxury. The people who...

November 20, 2018

Eternal Thanksgiving

Alexander Schmemann noted that our relationship with God will be manifest in the way we...

October 2018

October 02, 2018

Do Not Accept False Piety

Lactantius, an educated convert to the Christian faith around 300 CE, made such a great...

September 2018

September 28, 2018

The Babylonian Exile and the Church

Baruch ben Neriah, the friend and secretary of the prophet Jeremiah, found his prophetic mission...

August 2018

August 28, 2018

Follow God Over Human Law Or Custom

Once the order was given at Scetis, 'Fast this week.' Now it happened that some...

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June 26, 2018

Christians Must Reject Positive Law Which Violates The Common Good

Throughout Christian history, Christians have had to deal with nationalistic xenophobia. Christianity embraces universality over...

June 01, 2018

Self-Giving and Communion

In a famous episode of Christ’s ministry, Jesus turned fives loaves of bread and two...

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May 30, 2018

You Shall Not Wrong A Stranger Or Oppress Him

Once, the people of Israel were migrants. They had no land of their own. In...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

We Cannot Ignore Puerto Rico

Out of sight, out of mind. Evil spreads in the darkness where the light of...

February 08, 2018

Fasting, A Tool for Our Own Good

Consume. Consume this, consume that. Consume. Consume all you want. And then consume some more...

December 2017

December 06, 2017

Charity Presupposes Justice

If doing what is just is the same as charity, then love burns cold. Charity...

October 2017

October 19, 2017

Beware Those Pretending to Promote Judeo-Christian Values

Judeo-Christian values are found in the two-fold law of love: to love God and to...

October 05, 2017

Of Questions There Can Be No End

“My son, beware of anything beyond these. Of making many books there is no end,...

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June 22, 2017

God Spews Out The Lukewarm Who Gives Preference To Riches

In explaining why he hired the president of Goldman Sachs for the US Secretary of...

May 2017

May 03, 2017

Charity and Avarice: The Roots Of Good and Evil

We must discern what would lead us away from God, that is, what causes us...

December 2016

December 08, 2016

Heresy and the So-Called Pro-Life Movement

When confronted with the claims of superior knowledge and revelation by various heretical Gnostic sects,...

August 2016

August 31, 2016

On The Virtuous Life: The Good of Chastity in Marriage and in Celibacy

Catholic teaching tells us that marriage is a great good. This means, contrary to what...

July 2016

July 20, 2016

Don’t Let Yourself Become Pillaged By Pride

The brothers praised a monk before Abba Anthony. When the monk came to see him,...

July 18, 2016

St Jerome, Patron of Internet Trolls

“I was tempted by the devil,” she said. “Milly, please be sensible.” “Saints have been...

July 06, 2016

Our Salvation and Perdition Is Tied With The Way We Treat Our Neighbor

He also said, ‘Our Life and our death is with our neighbour. If we gain...

May 2016

May 02, 2016

Love of Money Leads to Nothing

Coming out of Israel, there is a tale of a poor pauper who worked hard,...

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