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The Power of Altruism

July 9, 2016 by Anna Keating Posted by Anna Keating |

Posted in Misc: Article | Under Charity, Community, Economics, Generosity, Greed, Love, Misc: Article, Selfishness |

“Maybe it’s time to build institutions that harness people’s natural longing to do good.”

Assuming that human beings are fundamentally selfish makes them that way. More from David Brooks in The New York Times: The Power of Altruism

6.11
Feast of St. Barnabas

June 11, 2016 by Melissa Musick Posted by Melissa Musick |

Posted in Feast | Under Apostle, Barnabas, Feast, Generosity, Liturgical Calendar, Love, Saints |

St. Barnabas calls us to consider the way we live, rather than worrying about how or when we will die. More from Melissa Musick after the jump:

1.27
Pope Francis’ Lenten Message

January 27, 2015 by Anna Keating Posted by Anna Keating |

Posted in Misc: Article | Under Almsgiving, Economics, Fasting, Generosity, Jesus, Lent, Misc: Article, Pope Francis, Poverty |

Pope Francis speaks about “the globalization of indifference” and Jesus’ “way of poverty” in his Lenten message for 2015. Ash Wednesday is February 18th. Read the full text of his message from NCR here: Pope Francis’ Lenten Message

10.21
Misc: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For

October 21, 2014 by Anna Keating Posted by Anna Keating |

Posted in Misc: Article | Under Charity, Generosity, Kindness, Kinship, Misc: Article, Pay it forward, Random acts of kindness |

Kate Murphy writes for The New York Times about how people are paying for the order of the driver behind them in drive-throughs as a random act of kindness, “Perhaps the largest outbreak of drive-through generosity occurred last December at Tim Horton’s in Winnipeg, Manitoba when 228 consecutive cars paid it forward.” Read it here: Ma’am, Your Burger Has Been Paid For.