Are you hungry?  Probably not.  At least not in a way that approaches starvation.  World hunger has always been with us, of course, but it seems even more pronounced in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic sweeping the globe.  Most tellingly, it has hit places  in which one would not normally expect it to happen:  the West.

     On the other hand, it's not surprising.  In many ways, the Western economies are built on debt, a massive web of interconnected debt.  Nations owe nations, states owe states, corporations owe banks, people owe each other.  Remove one pillar of this shaky edifice, and millions suffer.  Those at the bottom have nowhere to go:  their lives and jobs are expendable.  But those at the top are fine.  They can insulate themselves from the pain.
     This is not God's way.  God doesn't want people to go hungry.  God doesn't want people to be exploited.  God doesn't wish for the few to live at the expense of the many.

     Did not the early church, as Luke so carefully writes, "Hold everything in common?"