18 March 2017

On Pope Francis and Panhandlers

"New Yorkers, if not city dwellers everywhere, might acknowledge a debt to Pope Francis this week. He has offered a concrete, permanently useful prescription for dealing with panhandlers.

"It's this: Give them the money, and don't worry about it.

"The pope's advice, from an interview with a Milan magazine published just before the beginning of Lent, is startlingly simple. It's scripturally sound, yet possibly confounding, even subversive."

In a recent commentary, The New York Times Editorial Board offered a positive take on this recent advice of Pope Francis, given in an interview published in the magazine Scarp de' Tenis, (Tennis Shoes).

To access the complete editorial, please visit:

The New York Times: The Pope on Panhandling: Give Without Worry (3 MAR 17)

Related article:

Catholic News Service: Don't worry how it's spent, always give homeless a handout, pope says (28 FEB 17)

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