Five days a week at 1 p.m. sharp, the volunteers at St. Teresa of Calcutta Soup Kitchen in Pawhuska, OK, serve lunch to every adult and child who needs or wants a hot home-cooked meal. Every bowl of stew and scoop of pasta represents a tangible way to love thy neighbor. Though the soup kitchen operates out of the town’s Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, it has always been nondenominational—and everyone is welcome. “We have no idea, nor do we care, what faith someone is. We serve people because we are Catholic, not because they are,” says Father Sean Donovan, the church’s pastor.
“When we first started 15 years ago, there was a great deal of visible poverty in Pawhuska,” says Father Chris Daigle, the church’s former pastor who helped open…
