"Lent vs. Greed"

The Huffington Post

In an opinion piece for the Huffington Post, Rev. Thomas Worcester, S.J., calls our attention to the overabundance of greed in the world and suggests that Lent “with its almsgiving, prayer, and fasting, may offer an excellent remedy” to “greed and its exaltation.” 

“In the United States, Lent 2012 is a time also of political campaigning, and of a politics in which a candidate has not hesitated to boast about his wealth, his minimal payment of taxes, his firing of workers, and his disinterest in the very poor,” he writes. “Lent calls us to do penance for our greedy ways and to promote the common good, not selfish individualism.”

 

This "Holy Cross in the News" item by Kristine Maloney.