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March 2022

March 14, 2022

Focusing On Minor Grievances Is A Way To Avoid Institutional Reform

Saint Salvian mourned the way many of the hierarchy of the institutional church sold themselves...

January 2022

January 26, 2022

The Consistent Option For The Poor

The preferential option for the poor, though it is a recently-established phrased, is an expression...

November 2021

November 11, 2021

Christ Is With Us In The Poor

When Jesus’ disciples complained about the way he had been anointed by a woman with...

November 04, 2021

Justice, Systematic Racism, Labels, And CRT

Servant of God, Archbishop Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS, famously said: "When I give food to...

November 15, 2019

What is Preeminent?

Contrary to the way many people react, abortion is not one of the deadly sins....

September 2019

September 10, 2019

Climate Change And The Trump Administration’s Preparations For the Future

Among the many dire predictions concerning the effects of climate change is that the changes...

August 2019

August 29, 2019

Brood Of Vipers

When St. John the Baptist was fulfilling his ministry, calling the people of Israel to...

July 2018

July 10, 2018

When Fighting Evil, Hope In The Good

Wealth, government, industry and science, all are goods in and of themselves. But each of...

April 2018

April 05, 2018

Trump’s Reckless Policies Threaten The Common Good

For as the love of money is the root of all evil (cf. 1Tim. 6:10),...

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...

November 2017

November 08, 2017

Do Not Burden the Poor For the Benefit of the Rich

St. Salvian the Presbyter lived during the collapse of the Roman Empire, and in his...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

Removing Protections For the Poor is Not a Christian Action

On Tuesday, Mike Pence gave the deciding vote in the Senate to repeal consumer protection...

August 2017

August 28, 2017

Follow the Way to Greatness, Depart From It and Find Disaster

In the Tao te Ching, Lao Tzu (or whoever wrote and edited the text), often...

July 2017

July 03, 2017

The Universal Tao On Avarice

C.S. Lewis, following principles of “natural theology,” suggested that there was a normative, objective morality...

March 2017

March 06, 2017

I’m More Important Than You!

One day I was shopping at a local drug store which was in walking distance...

February 2017

February 23, 2017

Who Will You Serve?

Government is meant to serve justice, and when justice is served by the government, then...

February 07, 2017

Avarice, The Rival God

In his “Four Books to the Church,” Salvian wrote what could be seen as a...

January 2017

January 04, 2017

In The Time of Trump, Watch Congress As Well

This week, in one of the first moves of the Republican controlled Congress, the House...

January 03, 2017

Going Full Salvian In the Time of Trump

Last summer, I searched Amazon for used copies from the Fathers of the Church series...

December 2016

December 13, 2016

The Elite Must Be Held Accountable

Throughout history, it was quite common for those who lived in the highest tiers of...

December 06, 2016

Idolize Not the Rich

Many members of society, especially in a capitalistic based one like the United States, have...

November 2016

November 13, 2016

Woe To Those Who Know What Is Right And Promote What Is Evil

Open your mouth for the dumb, for the rights of all who are left desolate....

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