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People walk past a woman begging for alms in central Athens, Thursday, July 9, 2015. With a deadline just hours away to come up with a detailed economic reform plan, Greece requested a new three-year rescue from its European partners Wednesday as signs grew its economy was sliding toward free-fall without an urgently needed bailout. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Greece in crisis - and what Catholics are doing to help

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting of eurozone heads of state at the EU Council building in Brussels on Sunday, July 12, 2015. (AP Photo/Francois Walschaerts)

Greece clears final reform hurdle before new bailout talks

By Nicholas Paphitis and Menelaos Hadjicostis - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras delivers a speech during a parliament meeting in Athens, Saturday, June 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) ** FILE **

Greek banks reopen but keep cash limits; taxes soar

By Gatopoulos and Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras leaves from Maximos Mansion to meet the Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos in Athens, Wednesday, July 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

Alexis Tsipras, Greek’s P.M., to sell austerity deal to reluctant party

By Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

A supporter of the No vote waves a Greek flag after the first results of the referendum at Syntagma square in Athens, Sunday, July 5, 2015. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Greece rushing to finalize reforms and remain in euro

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Monday as the Greek debt crisis deepened. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Greece debt crisis could give Russia opening to expand influence in region

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

A Greek Orthodox priest walks by the poster of "NO" and posters depicting German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, top center, reading ''For five years he is drinking your blood, now tell him NO'' referring to the upcoming referendum in central Athens, on Friday, July 3, 2015. (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias)

After vote win, Greece P.M. Alexis Tsipras looks to rebuild talks

By Derek Gatopoulos and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis speaks with members of the International Monetary Fund, before the IMF Governors group photo, at the World Bank-International Monetary Fund annual meetings in Washington, Saturday, April 18, 2015. ( AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) ** FILE **

Yanis Varoufakis, Greece finance minister, resigns after decisive ‘no’ bailout vote

By Elena Becatoros and Demetris Nellas - Associated Press

Demonstrators shout slogans during a rally organized by supporters of the Yes vote in Athens, Friday, July 3, 2015. A new opinion poll shows a dead heat in Greece's referendum campaign with just two days to go before Sunday's vote on whether Greeks should accept more austerity in return for bailout loans. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Greeks reject austerity measures in referendum

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Riot police throw a tear gas canister as demonstrators run to avoid it before a rally organized by supporters of the No vote in Athens, Friday, July 3, 2015. Greeks will vote Sunday on whether to accept a proposal that creditors had made of specific reforms in exchange for loans. European Union institutions are framing it as a vote for or against the euro. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Greek police, youths clash before Athens rally on bailout referendum

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Members of left wing parties hold placards reading in Greek ''NO'' next to a Presidential Guard, Evzonas, during a protest outside the Greek Parliament in Athens, Sunday, June 28, 2015. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says the Bank of Greece has recommended that banks remain closed and restrictions be imposed on transactions, after the European Central Bank didn't increase the amount of emergency liquidity the lenders can access from the central bank. (AP Photo/Daniel Ochoa de Olza)

PETER MORICI: The Greeks should vote “no!”

By Peter Morici

Anxious Greeks lined up at ATMs on Monday as they gradually began dispensing cash again on the first day of capital controls imposed in a dramatic twist in Greece's financial saga. Banks will remain shut until next Monday, and a daily limit of $67 has been placed on cash withdrawals from ATMs. (Associated Press)

Greece makes concession but no deal seen before Sunday vote

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Thursday, June 18, 2015 a stencil work by an artist who uses the name Wild Drawing shows a fake road sign with a little car in the blue and white Greek colours tumbling off a crumbling euro currency sign into the water. It’s called “Keep Away.” Over the past five years of Greece’s economic depression, more and more paintings comment on the country’s financial and social woes. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

PETER MORICI: The sooner Greece defaults and dumps the Euro the better

By Peter Morici

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras speaks with visiting Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann in Athens, Greece, on Wednesday, June 17, 2015. (AP Photo/Yorgos Karahalis) ** FILE **

Europe cautiously optimistic of Greek debt deal this week

By Lorne Cook and Raf Casert - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for a meeting at the Education Ministry in Athens, Tuesday, June 2, 2015. Tsipras says Greece has submitted a proposal for an agreement with its creditors, as Athens seeks a deal that will to unlock desperately needed rescue money. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

Alexis Tsipras, Greek prime minister, heads to Brussels to defend bailout proposal

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gestures during a Presidential vote in Athens, on Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2015. (Associated Press)

Germany rejects Greek olive branch on eve of bailout talks

By Nicholas Paphitis and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press