One of my favorite books is a little nine-chapter story filled with poetic images and thundering sermonics. It comes from ...

The Lectionary invites us to consider the story of Lazarus in light of the prophet Amos who also critiqued excessive wealth in his day. In the first reading, the prophet addresses the wealthy in ...

Sitting in a pew at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, Michael Thomas Kutka took the words of eighth-century B.C.E. prophet Amos — for the corrupt and greedy powerful to remember the neglected ...

But one verse from Amos just stuck in my soul’s craw ... The words of the wise, or of a prophet, mean nothing to the fool, the bully, or the tyrant. In such a place and time, wise words are both ...

James Lloyd, C.S.P., at The Catholic World Report +1 A Warning From The Prophet Amos Explains a Lot of Our Current Decline – Msgr. Charles Pope at Community in Mission +1 ...