Just as the Israelites “turned aside” from God’s way to worship, sacrifice, and cry out to a molten calf, could it not be said with some justice that we modern people also commit idolatry by worshiping the god named “Choice”?
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Many say that having an unplanned child, especially those born into poor, single or unloving homes, condemns both the child and the mother to a life of great difficulty. But as the first reading suggests, “Who can know God’s counsel, or who can conceive what the Lord intends?”
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St. Francis of Assisi famously called the poor the Church’s real treasures and today’s Psalm reminds us of this, as God, in his goodness, has “made a home for the poor.”
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