Poverty

Reading the Signs

Daniel Imwalle June 23, 2026

There are so many ways to help and give back, it’s almost impossible to not find something that works for you.

Do Not Close Your Ears

Tom Faletti February 17, 2026

Too often, the poor, the needy, the homeless, and the destitute are not heard.

Dilexi te’s Urgent Plea: Risk the Poor or Lose Jesus

Tyler Grudi, OFM October 30, 2025

A stolen moment at McDonald’s became an unexpected altar. One sandwich, surrendered without hesitation, exposed bitterness being carried—and the sweetness waiting on the other side. Here’s how a friar’s small act of love echoed Pope Leo XIV’s urgent call to ...

Homeless man holding a sign with "Seeking Human Kindness" written on it.

Be Poor in Spirit

Sue Erschen September 23, 2025

Regardless of our own financial situation, we all can be poor in spirit.

St. Francis and the Cross

Jovian Weigel, OFM September 10, 2025

Francis always mentioned humility in the same breath with poverty.

A worker with Jesuit Refugee Service is seen in a 2023 photo offering physical therapy to a woman in Renk, South Sudan, as part of the response to the conflict in Sudan. A pause on U.S. foreign aid is affecting critical programs carried out by nongovernmental organizations like JRS. (OSV News photo/courtesy JRS)

CRS, African women religious describe impact of US foreign aid cuts

OSV News March 17, 2025

Women religious from Africa and a representative of Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., grappled with the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid.

Sister Pat Madden poses in an undated photo before a wall covered with welcome signs given by clients to the Sisters of St. Joseph Welcome Center in Philadelphia. The center offers in-person and online courses in literacy and citizenship and is accredited by the U.S. Department of Justice to assist immigrants with the naturalization process. Some 58 volunteer teachers work with more than 150 students. (OSV News photo/Dan Stockman, Global Sisters Report)

Philadelphia’s St. Joseph Center serves immigrants, is ‘ready for any good work’

OSV News November 8, 2024

More than 20 years ago, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Philadelphia were dreaming of a way to help the many Albanian and other East European immigrants who were moving to the area.