CHRISTIANITY is not all about feeding yourself. Christianity begins with what people do with the leftovers.
The disparities between human beings who live in squalor and those who have everything money can buy are glaring in a world brought closer together through amazing advances in communication.
This great disparity denies social justice, leads to ecological tragedy, and most of all creates a misperception of what the good life really is, which ultimately makes excessive consumption a religious question.
How can our Catholic faith help us to find a more satisfying life for ourselves and at the same time make us more socially responsible in achieving it?
The recent social teachings of the Church based upon the order of nature and the higher demands of gospel living may provide some indications of what the good life might be like for us all.