Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is worth a watch. We saw it yesterday. Today we get a second reading from Amos and his condemnation of riches. Even more powerful than the sequel to Wall Street is the story Jesus tells in today’s Gospel—the rich man and Dives at the gate. What is it that we don’t get from the prophets and the One Risen from the Dead?

Last week we heard the startling statistic that one out of every seven Americans live in poverty. While the rich fight to keep the Bush tax breaks that have cost the Treasury trillions, one out of every seven Americans languishes at the gates of the rich man’s manor. In America and around the world the income gap between the haves and have-nots is increasing at an alarming rate. Continue reading →