Poverty & Crime

My congregation just completed another year’s involvement in the Angel Tree program, giving Christmas gifts to children of an incarcerated parent. In my several years of involvement with Angel Tree it seems that inmate families are almost always poor. That raises the question: Do they break the law because they are poor, or are they…

The Lord of History

The following article was written by Fr. Paul Scalia, published on November 27th, 2022 on the website www.thecatholicthing.org. The picture is Our Lord Jesus Christ by James Tissot, c. 1890 [Brooklyn Museum] The Lord of History Fr. Paul D. Scalia The so-called Respect for Marriage Act has pushed the issue of gay marriage back into…