The Pain of Greed Msgr. Charles Pope • April 5, 2017 • There is a text in the Office of Readings that speaks to the connection between greed, affluence and dissatisfaction.The foreign elements among them were so greedy for meat that even the Israelites lamented again, “Would that we had meat for food! We remember the fish we used to eat without cost in Egypt, and the cucumbers, the melons, the leeks, the onions, and the garlic. But now we are famished; we see nothing before us but this manna.” … [The LORD replied,] “To the people, you shall...