First Things RSS Feed - Joseph Naumann https://www.firstthings.com/author/joseph-naumann en-us Copyright 2025 First Things. All Rights Reserved. ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) ft@firstthings.com (The Editors) Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:56:53 -0500 https://d2201k5v4hmrsv.cloudfront.net/img/favicon-196.png First Things RSS Feed Image https://www.firstthings.com/rss/author/joseph-naumann 60 Faithful Catholics and Faithful Americans https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2007/11/faithful-catholics-and-faithful-americans https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2007/11/faithful-catholics-and-faithful-americans Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500 For the early Christians, living in societies that were at best indifferent to Christianity and frequently hostile, the challenge was how to survive without compromising the faith. During the time of persecution, Christians would find it often impossible to be true to Jesus and accommodate the demands of the civil authorities, requiring of them the ultimate witness to their faith: Christian martyrdom.

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]]> Woe to Those Who Call Evil Good https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2007/10/woe-to-those-who-call-evil-goo https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2007/10/woe-to-those-who-call-evil-goo Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0400 Mother Teresa, who dedicated her life to serving the poorest of the poor, said on more than one occasion that the greatest poverty in the world was not on the streets of Calcutta but here in the United States and Western Europe. She would say: "What a terrible poverty that says: I cannot feed one more child. I cannot clothe one more child. I cannot shelter one more child. I cannot care for one more child. I cannot love one more child."

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