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Poverty : responding like Jesus / edited by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM, and Conor M. Kelly.

Contributor(s): Himes, Kenneth R, 1950- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Brewster, Massachusetts : Paraclete Press, 2018Description: 123 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781612616827; 1612616828Subject(s): Church work with the poor -- Catholic Church | Poverty -- Religious aspects -- Catholic ChurchDDC classification: 261.8/325 LOC classification: BX2347.8.P66 | P68 2018Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Introduction -- Poverty and Christian discipleship / by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM -- The poor in the New Testament / by Pheme Perkins -- A difficult text: "For you always have the poor with you" / by Bruce C. Birch and Larry Rasmussen -- A sermon on Lazarus and the rich man / by St. John Chrysostom -- A vow of poverty / by Sandra Marie Schneiders, IHM -- I'm not angry so much as I'm really tired / by Linda Tirado -- Displacement as a form of poverty / by Henri J. Nouwen, Donald P. McNeill, csc, and Douglas A. Morrison -- The structural problem of working poverty / by Conor M. Kelly -- The poor and the environment / Michael Mutzner and Alessandra Aula -- Poverty quiz / from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development -- Catholic social teaching / selected excerpts from magisterial documents -- The option for the poor in Catholic social teaching / by Thomas Massaro, SJ -- Christian families in care for the poor / by Julie Hanlon Rubio -- Feeding the poor - at a sacrifice / teachings of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and Jean Vanier -- A Church that is poor and for the poor / by Pope Francis.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Poverty and Christian discipleship / by Kenneth R. Himes, OFM -- The poor in the New Testament / by Pheme Perkins -- A difficult text: "For you always have the poor with you" / by Bruce C. Birch and Larry Rasmussen -- A sermon on Lazarus and the rich man / by St. John Chrysostom -- A vow of poverty / by Sandra Marie Schneiders, IHM -- I'm not angry so much as I'm really tired / by Linda Tirado -- Displacement as a form of poverty / by Henri J. Nouwen, Donald P. McNeill, csc, and Douglas A. Morrison -- The structural problem of working poverty / by Conor M. Kelly -- The poor and the environment / Michael Mutzner and Alessandra Aula -- Poverty quiz / from the Catholic Campaign for Human Development -- Catholic social teaching / selected excerpts from magisterial documents -- The option for the poor in Catholic social teaching / by Thomas Massaro, SJ -- Christian families in care for the poor / by Julie Hanlon Rubio -- Feeding the poor - at a sacrifice / teachings of Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, and Jean Vanier -- A Church that is poor and for the poor / by Pope Francis.

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