You Can't Be Poorer Than Dead: What the Dead Have To Teach Us About the Preferential Option For the Poor

Today we pick back up considerations of Catholic Social Teaching, but with a liturgically appropriate twist: in this month of November dedicated to praying for the dead, what can the dead teach us about civic life and Catholic Social Teaching? Ruminating on a wide array of commentators, we explore how the ultimate poverty of death should make us treat the living better and understand how Christ's Death and Resurrection shows His preferential option for us even in the grave.