Do We Really Love the Poor? Pope Leo Offers 8 Questions to Help Us Find Out
‘The Church is fully the bride of the Lord,’ says the Holy Father, ‘only when she is the sister of the poor.’
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Why Vatican II Urged Catholics to Be the ‘Church of the Poor’
COMMENTARY: The Second Vatican Council reminded the faithful that in serving the poor, the Church encounters Christ himself — the Savior who became poor to make the world rich with grace.
Cash Aid to Single Mothers Fails to Improve Child Outcomes, Study Finds
Subsidizing single motherhood didn’t help kids — but marriage might.
There Is a Kind of Gospel Poverty That All Christians Must Embrace
In its own way, the call to poverty holds for the father as much as for the friar.
Priest: ‘Worst Poverty in Cuba Is the ‘Lack of Freedom’
Father Bladimir Navarro said that ‘the Cuban communist dictatorship is afraid of losing power. They have passed new laws to perpetuate their Marxist ideology.'
‘Rent-a-Womb’: Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas’ Choice Highlights How Surrogacy Financially Exploits Women
The news revealed an intersection between feminist perspectives and Catholic teaching.
This Sunday, We Consider Hell’s Bitter Motto: ‘It Might Have Been’
SCRIPTURES & ART: Today’s readings remind us that God sometimes gives us opportunities that knock only once.
Pope Francis Appeals for Fight Against ‘Unacceptable Poverty’
In a message to two Belgian groups released on Jan. 29, the pope said that the coronavirus pandemic had made poverty relief even more difficult.
Aid to the Church in Need Providing Relief to Nuns in Poverty During Pandemic
The pontifical foundation noted that the pandemic has worsened the nuns’ already “extremely difficult” situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a country already suffering from ethnic conflicts, insecurity, armed incursions from neighboring countries, kidnappings and rapes.
Venezuelan Bishop Pleads for Help: Either COVID Kills Us Or Hunger Kills Us
Bishop Polito Rodríguez Méndez of San Carlos said the crisis in Venezuela is likely to worsen in the coming months, which will seriously affect the Church in the country, which is already lacking financial resources.
