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Episode Synopsis
Dr. Matthew Petrusek
Poverty is not only a complex problem to address economically–not to mention sociologically, psychologically, and culturally; it is also often caught up in political and ideological currents, both domestically and internationally, that run counter to a Catholic understanding of human dignity and the common good. So what, then, is the authentically Catholic way of caring for the poor? What does it mean to say that Catholicism has a preferential option for the poor? How, moreover, can the Church coherently both advocate for reducing poverty on the one hand while praising the embrace of voluntary poverty on the other?
A listener asks advice on how God being in a non-competitive relationship with human beings applies to his mission as an evangelist.
Topics Covered:
00:00 | Introduction01:53 | Bishop Barron at the annual meeting of US bishops03:39 | The three essential tasks of the Church07:48 | The necessity of charity in true worship09:04 | Understanding and identifying poverty10:58 | The margins, the marginalized, and Catholic social teaching16:08 | Understanding institutional sin18:40 | The salvific dimension of poverty21:17 | The voluntary poverty of the Church22:57 | What about spending money on cathedrals?26:03 | Beauty as service to the poor27:11 | Defining “preferential option for the poor”31:16 | The Church, policy, and the poor35:18 | Right to private property or universal distribution of goods?37:42 | The evangelical dimension of caring for the poor|40:06 | Listener question: If God exists noncompetitively, does my mission matter?41:45 | Join the Word on F
Poverty is not only a complex problem to address economically–not to mention sociologically, psychologically, and culturally; it is also often caught up in political and ideological currents, both domestically and internationally, that run counter to a Catholic understanding of human dignity and the common good. So what, then, is the authentically Catholic way of caring for the poor? What does it mean to say that Catholicism has a preferential option for the poor? How, moreover, can the Church coherently both advocate for reducing poverty on the one hand while praising the embrace of voluntary poverty on the other?
A listener asks advice on how God being in a non-competitive relationship with human beings applies to his mission as an evangelist.
Topics Covered:
00:00 | Introduction01:53 | Bishop Barron at the annual meeting of US bishops03:39 | The three essential tasks of the Church07:48 | The necessity of charity in true worship09:04 | Understanding and identifying poverty10:58 | The margins, the marginalized, and Catholic social teaching16:08 | Understanding institutional sin18:40 | The salvific dimension of poverty21:17 | The voluntary poverty of the Church22:57 | What about spending money on cathedrals?26:03 | Beauty as service to the poor27:11 | Defining “preferential option for the poor”31:16 | The Church, policy, and the poor35:18 | Right to private property or universal distribution of goods?37:42 | The evangelical dimension of caring for the poor|40:06 | Listener question: If God exists noncompetitively, does my mission matter?41:45 | Join the Word on F
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