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The Church has a preferential option for the poor. That isn’t a bumper sticker. It’s a formal doctrinal position, centuries old, inconvenient as gout, demanding as a landlord. ...
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The poor do not discuss climate change in conference halls. They simply encounter it. Climate change is not only an ecological problem, but also a justice problem. ...
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Now in its third year, the Wrapped with Love Memorial Service continues to grow, and for the last two years, the event has come at a poignant time. In the last few weeks, two people known to the local community died....
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A year on from the dismantling of USAID, the consequences are propagating. An update to Tearing the Seamless Garment....
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In L’Osservatore Romano, the renowned American writer William Vollmann - whose career has been dedicated to the wretched of the earth: the poor, the homeless, prostitutes - reflects on Pope Leo's apostolic exhortation 'Dilexi te'....
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True worship demands love for the poor....
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It is odd — or is it? — that Pope Leo begins his apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te with the story of the woman who poured costly oil on Jesus’ head (Matthew 26:8-9,11), only to be upbraided by one of the disciples who fretted, “Why this waste? For this ointment could have...
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As the Church prepares to mark the Ninth World Day of the Poor on Sunday, 16 November 2025, Pope Leo XIV issues a message centred on the theme: “You are my hope”, and expresses his hope that this Jubilee Year may encourage the development of policies aimed at combatting...
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Through his theological writings and pastoral exhortations, Pope Francis has consistently pointed the world toward a strong critique of Trumpian politics, helping us to understand how MAGA ideology has inverted Christian values and blinded its supporters to the true needs of others....