Welcome to our daily rosary meditation. Let's begin in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Let's call to mind all those we've promised to pray for.

God wants us to earn money and own private property, but the question is, if it's mine, can't I use it any way I want?

What does God want me to do with my money and ability to earn money, and how will he judge me when I stand before him at my death?

These are all questions that fall under the seventh commandment.

Thou shall not steal.

And Jesus has a lot to teach us through the church

about money and how we use our money.

So we're beginning a series that's basically a crash course

on the economic principles God wants us to use in our personal lives, our homes, businesses, and in our country.

And all this is found in the Catechism, paragraphs 2401 to 2557, but you might not have time to read and digest those, so we've done it for you. Now in the

seventh commandment God says thou shall not steal. So let's begin. What does this mean to steal? The

catacism gives us an answer. Stealing means taking another person's property against their will.

Notice, this means that not all property taking is unjust.

If the owner is being crazy unreasonable in his use of his property,

one can sometimes legitimately take it away. So like if a guy is using his

rifle to rob a store and the police come in and yell,

drop your weapon.

The thief can't say, hey, this gun is my private property.

So, the right to private property does have certain limits.

But the first point to get down here

is that God's commandment says that you can't steal

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