Unsettled by the specific situation, he asked parishioners at St. Peter, positioned western of Troost, to redirect any dollars that are charitable could have made off pay day loans from the parish and toward their next-door neighbors into the eastern. The priest discovered it, while unfortunate, “unfortunately unsurprising. because of the time Cook became Clark’s pastor at St. Therese and heard their tale”
“It really is scripturally sinful,” he told NCR. “And there’s no chance you can argue that the rate that is average Missouri], 450 %, just isn’t usury.”
The Bibles condemns usury, the lending money at high interest rates throughout its pages. Likewise has got the Catechism regarding the Catholic Church, saying under its conversation regarding the Fifth Commandment (“Thou shalt not kill”): “Those whose usurious and avaricious transactions result in the hunger and loss of their brethren into the peoples family indirectly commit homicide, which will be imputable in their mind.”
Then-chair of the U.S. bishops’ conference Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, wrote a letter to CFPB encouraging the agency to “act with your authority to protect consumers and families living in or near poverty from predatory financial products, especially payday loans. in a 2013 letter, Stockton, Calif., Bishop Stephen Blaire”
Cook stated it really is up to Catholics together with faith community to help make vocal that message.
On the solution to the Stop the Debt Trap rally, the priest joined up with Johnston and approximately 70 other people in a procession, performing a rendition of this religious “Go Down Moses,” tweaking the refrain to “Tell those payday loan providers, to allow my people go.”
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