Something beautiful
Something beautiful to begin the weekend…
Tag: Charity
Pope visits home for street children
Pope Francis just visited a home which looks after street children in the Philippines. Seriously, this guy…
Making the world a better place
Here’s something beautiful for the beginning of the year…
How to make the world a (slightly) better place
Helping the homeless
Yesterday I came across a great post over at Upworthy on how to help those living on the street…
Desert Fathers: Early Bible Salesman
Evagrius said that there was a brother who had no possessions except a Gospel book and he sold it in order to feed the poor. He said something worth remembering: “I have sold even the word that commands me to sell all and give to the poor”
– De vitis Patrum, Sive Verba Seniorum, Liber V
The Catholic News You Never Hear
I’ve started reading “Rediscovering Catholicism” by Matthew Kelly and I wanted to share a one quotations from the opening pages:
“Every single day the Catholic Church feeds, houses, and clothes more people, takes care of more sick people, visits more prisoners, and educates more people than any other institution on the face of the earth could ever hope to…
The Catholic education system alone saves American taxpayers eighteen billion dollars a year…
This year, catholic charities will provide 2.2 million free meals to the hungry and the needy of Chicago. We don’t ask them if they are Catholic – we just ask them if they are hungry”
– Matthew Kelly, Rediscovering Catholicism
When there is a scandal in the Catholic Church it is blasted from every media outlet so that the whole world gets to hear about it. Yet how is it that the continued good works of the Church so often go unreported?
Aside from the fact that it’s not as sensational, it’s not news! This is the same service which the Church has offered the world every day for two thousand years. It ceased being news a long time ago…