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Needs and Wants

By Sarah GouldPosted on January 22, 2015Posted in FeaturedTagged Happy are you Poor, materialism, poor, home decorating, quality, clothing, needs, wants, superfluous, Sarah Gould, Fr. Thomas Dubay

When my husband and I were first married we lived on the outskirts of a pretty uppity community. Wednesday was trash day so Tuesday evenings we would drive around the neighbourhood, “shopping.” We picked up a wide array of furniture and décor in those days—the things that people were “donating” to the landfill were amazing:[…]

So you want to be a radical?

By Sarah GouldPosted on May 30, 2013Posted in FeaturedTagged Fr. Thomas Dubay, Happy are you Poor, Caryll Houselander, advertising, money, poor, Reed of God

How many of us walk by the kiosks where the lottery tickets are sold and just for a second imagine what it would be like to win 50 million? What would we buy? What would we give to family, church, or charity? Personally, I imagine what it would be like not to have to worry[…]

Religious Environmentalism and Population Control

By Sarah GouldPosted on December 12, 2012Posted in FeaturedTagged contraception, the environment, environmentalism, overpopulation, population control, mother earth, sparing/sharing lifestyle, Fr. Thomas Dubay, Happy are you Poor, euthanasia, Sarah Gould, Abortion

Seems like those who give their hearts and souls to environmentalism are the only canonized saints these days: those who fight the good fight for mother earth by religiously performing the rituals of recycling, reducing, reusing, composting, eating only local organic food, having urban gardens, organizing CSAs, etc. Seems to me they’ve misplaced their faith—living solely by[…]