Poverty

Hands reaching out | Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

Be in the Margins

Tyler Grudi, OFM November 24, 2025

This is my prayer for our nation, that each of us goes a little further to the margins, peripheries, and abandoned places in our communities to touch the poor there.

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.