004: Is Your Charity Actually Hurting The Poor?

The Art of Catholic with Matthew Leonard

Matthew Leonard

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 831 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2015

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Did you know that check you just wrote to your favorite charity may actually be hurting the very people you're trying to help? It's true! How is that possible? In quite a few ways, actually. In fact, certain kinds of aid can actually devastate them. In the 4th episode of The Art of Catholic podcast, I interview Michael Matheson Miller from the Acton Institute about the harm that can actually come from some of the forms of charity with which we've grown familiar. Odds are this episode will totally change your view (and actions) regarding foreign aid. God bless! Matthew "All who have been lost were lost because they did not pray." St. Alphonsus Liguori. Don't be lost! Grab your FREE copy of my quick guide to deeper prayer 8 Ways To Jumpstart Your Prayer Life! It's an easy step-by-step summary of the spiritual giants of the Church designed to help you rocket to God! Don't forget to PLEASE head over to iTunes and leave the show a rating! Doing so helps promote the podcast and gets Catholic material in front of people who may never otherwise be exposed to the faith. Thank you!

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0:00.0	This is the Art of Catholic.
0:05.7	Hello and welcome to session number four of the Art of Catholic.
0:18.5	I've got another rock and show for you today.
0:20.6	In fact, this one may be an eye open.
0:23.0	The show, which I think is going to seriously challenge and perhaps change your thinking with regard to how we helped before.
0:29.0	We all know we're supposed to tie and engage in almsgiving, but is the way we've been traditionally
0:34.0	doing it helping? Or is it actually hurting? My guest on this topic is going to be Michael Matheson
0:40.0	Miller, who's a really sharp guy from a very well-known Catholic think tank called the Acton Institute.
0:46.1	But before we get to Michael, I want to encourage you to head over to Matthews Leonard.com,
0:50.6	where you can grab a free talk called Writing Straight with Crooked Lines, How God Saves
0:55.5	You Even When You've Been Rrrrr.
0:57.4	I also want to remind you to check out the link on my site describing the two amazing
1:01.0	pilgrimages I'm going to lead for the St. Paul Center in 2016. The first one is in February to experience Arlead of Guadalupe in Sonny, Mexico.
1:09.8	And the second one is going to be in October of next year to Fatima, Spain, and the Lourdes.
1:15.4	And I can't wait for both of them.
1:17.6	And hope you can join me.
1:19.4	Pilgrimages date all the way back to the time of the Israelites who made pilgrimage to
1:22.9	Jerusalem for Passover.
1:25.4	And Christians have continued this tradition
1:28.0	in the visiting sites around the world
1:29.8	the last 2,000 years.
1:31.6	And these kinds of trips, they transform lives.
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