Letting people into our stingy heaven

Letting people into  our stingy heaven - People gather outside the Catholic Worker’s St Joseph House in New York City. The house of hospitality is near the Church of the Nativity, the parish of social activist and sainthood candidate Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Photo: CNS /Gregory A. Shemitz.

Are we sometimes too stingy about who we allow into God’s family? Says Fr Ron Rolheiser John Muir once asked: “Why are Christians so reluctant to let animals into their stingy heaven?” Indeed, why? Especially since St Paul tells us in the Epistle to the Romans that all creation (mineral, plant, animal) is groaning to…

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