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Poverty

U.S. & World News

Better taxation, wealth redistribution are necessary, Vatican official says

The increasing and extreme economic inequality in the world is rooted in an ideology of individualism in which investments and prosperity are aimed only at driving profit not helping the common good, said Archbishop Paul Gallagher, Vatican foreign minister.
Faith at Home

Running to each other in need

I once heard God's option for the poor and vulnerable explained like this:
U.S. & World News

Selfish, materialistic lifestyles help fuel poverty, pope says in message

Poverty is the result of people's selfishness; it is not "fate" or the fault of the poor, Pope Francis said.
Featured

One year later: Catholic Charities CEO sees hurt wrought by Floyd’s death among Twin Cities people in need

Lift each other up in the midst of trauma, poverty and injustice.
Commentary

Sheltering the homeless, keeping kids safe at school, decriminalizing poverty

Our Catholic faith calls us to shelter the homeless. Despite many charities living out this corporal work of mercy, the need continues to grow.
U.S. & World News

Ahead of G-20 meeting, Caritas urges debt relief for poor countries

As finance ministers representing the world's wealthiest countries prepare to meet online, Caritas Internationalis echoed Pope Francis' call for debt relief to poor countries reeling from war, poverty and the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. & World News

As Latin America becomes center of pandemic, churches confront hunger

Diego Ramirez, a single father in a rural village in southern Guatemala, worked in a restaurant and kept a chicken farm, selling the birds in a market to support his three daughters.
Already/Not Yet

Lent, ‘the least of these’ and our parents

Lent is marked by prayer and fasting, but also “almsgiving,” or works of mercy. Regarding this final category, Christ’s words in Matthew 25:40 are a clear foundation: “Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brethren, you did it to me.”
U.S. & World News

Temporary mobile health clinic for the poor opens in St. Peter’s Square

As workers were getting St. Peter's Square ready for this year's Nativity scene, nearby a large mobile health care facility was set up and running to serve the city's homeless and poor.
U.S. & World News

Lack of progress fighting hunger is shameful, pope says

At a time of technological and scientific progress, "we ought to feel shame" for not having advanced in "humanity and solidarity" enough to feed the world's poor, Pope Francis said.
U.S. & World News

U.S. reports poverty declines, but agencies finding needs remain great

The good news from the U.S. Census Bureau Sept. 12 was that the poverty rate dropped for the third straight year in 2017 and median family incomes ticked up 1.8 percent to nearly $61,400.
Local News

Housing gap to remain a key poverty factor past 2020

Hope LaDuke stood in the wind near a concrete sound barrier along Hiawatha Avenue in south Minneapolis Aug. 1. All of her belongings were stacked under a plastic tarp that measured roughly 5 feet square, and she pulled out a blanket that she would sleep under that night.
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