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Well that was a very nice way to start the day.
I also saw that loaves-and-fishes article at The Catholic Thing. It made me richer to have read it and your post on it.
What’s going on with all the Jesus stuff on Ricochet these days? Was it the march for life or do churches send our their flyers in February or what?
Why does one person need five loaves and two fishes? It was his duty to surrender the surplus to the collective.
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I agree that 5 loaves and 2 fish seems more than one boy’s meal plan for a day.
As for private property versus society and poverty, Pope Leo XVIII had strong words in defense of property and warning against socialism, as I’m reading now.
Hmm. Interesting question. Here’s a theory: Maybe it’s the change in liturgical season from Christmas to Ordinary Time? After the Christmas season, the Gospel readings take up Jesus’s public ministry.
Grown-up Jesus* is endlessly quotable (e.g. “salt of the earth”, “brood of vipers”, “wise as serpents and simple as doves”, etc) and His parables were the exemplar for effective communication long before the current fashion (to the point of being cliche) for “narrative” and “storytelling”. Even if one isn’t a believer, the Bible ranks among the world’s greatest literature. So Jesus provides lots of material for Ricochet’s
Catholic(qualifier removed) writers.Don’t know about the liturgical readings for other Christian denominations though.
*We get a strong hint of the wisdom of the Child Jesus, but like Baby Yoda, we don’t hear much from Him until he becomes an adult.
Speaking only for myself, it’s at least partly that I’m bored and exhausted with most of the non-news about impeachment and election season. There’s plenty political to rant about, but nothing I haven’t said before.
It also helps that theology and culture discussion is much more natural to me than politics. Like Dennis Prager, I’m a big picture kind of guy. Politics and religion aren’t wholly separate issues anyway, since politics is a practice of group ethics and religious morals+beliefs define ethics.
To focus on the positive. Slightly poor people in America do alot to help very poor folks. More in charitable work and food than in cash but they give alot. Christian charity is still very much alive and well even without Chick-Fil-A’s funding.