I am glad Fr. Barron is human like the rest of us. A friend of mine gives away a lot of his money, and then I end up giving him money to buy things he needs. But his example helped bring me to the Catholic church.

I admit I also struggle with the homeless person at the end of the interstate ramp and the begger outside the drug store. Sometimes I give them money, sometimes they put a scare in me and most of the time I don't give them anything. I guess the easiest teaching of Jesus to follow here is "what you do for the least you do for me". I also struggle with the welfare or assistance programs we have in the USA. I give money, not freely, to this system through taxation. Some may agree with these programs but I believe the system forces generations into poverty. If this is true, is this a sin of our society just as abortion is? I am afraid our societal action put us all in the same boat as the rich man in the parable.