The preferential option for the poor, which includes feeding the hungry and drawing close to the excluded, “is the key criterion of Christian authenticity,” Pope Francis said Aug. 19 during his weekly general audience.
Just feeling good is spiritually different from the sensation of feeling one’s “heart drawn to God,” even if the circumstances are outwardly negative, bleak.
Flora X. Tang reported for classes last week at the University of Notre Dame. She found a lot of improvising to make in-person classes work, but the number of Covid-19 cases on campus rose each day.