Worshipping mammon: the virtue that counters greed is generosity.

The Greed Creed

Fr. Dwight Longenecker

I’ve got a series of article on the seven deadly sins being published over at Catholic Exchange. Go here for this week’s article on Greed

We think of greed as a fat cat banker who pays himself a million dollar bonus after already receiving a salary of three million for working a seventy hour week doing shady almost legal deals for people. Or we think greed is shown by a person who is a tightwad: pinching every penny and cutting every corner to make a little bit more money wherever he can.

Those are good examples of greed, but the extremes often blind us to the reality closer to home.

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