As good Catholics, we are told to be charitable.
One immediately thinks this means giving money to the Church or others.
Surely it can also mean being kind, helpful etc.
What do you think charity means?
 

Authentic charity is, first and foremost, charity to God. How are we charitable to God? You love Him when you keep his Commandments (John 14:15).

So, Jesus tells his followers, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments". This means that a genuine love for God is demonstrated through obedience to His teachings. Keeping His commandments, therefore, is not just an act of duty, but a natural expression of love for Him.

What is the greatest commandment? Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind (Matthew 22:37).

The second, and subsidiary, Commandment is to love your neighbor as yourself. Not to love your neighbor (or yourself) as you would love your God, as if your neighbor was equal or above God, making an idol out of the neighbor. This is inversion of the Commandments and the greatest error.

Jesus says that those two Commandments are a perfect re-statement of the Law and the Prophets. They are not new Commandments. They are the perfected understanding of the same old Ten Commandments. We know this because Jesus said that "till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled."

What do the Ten Commandments start with? Faith, honor and adoration of God in the first three. Honor of earthly superiors in the fourth. And treating others as you would like people to treat you (fifth through tenth).

You should not want people to act violently against you, so don't do it to them. You should not want someone to treat you like a sɛҳuąƖ pleasure object, so don't do that to them. You should not want someone to steal your stuff, so don't do it to them. You should not want someone to maliciously ruin your reputation with slander and detraction, so don't do it to them. You should not want someone to look at your wife or husband with the desire to take them away from you, so don't do that to them. You should not want someone to desire to steal your things, so don't do that to them.

So, the true concept of Charity has very little to do with "giving money to the Church or others." And it certainly doesn't mean simply being "kind and helpful" if that entails being silent in the face of evil or enabling others to offend God by ignoring His Commandments. That kind of thing is anti-Charity. But with the inversion of true Good and Evil in our world, even the best of us must struggle to escape those deceptions.

Of course the Moral Theology commentators explain the logical implications of these basic tenets reach farther than just those specific actions. The Ten Commandments are examples of the biggies, not the full extent of the Law, as the Catholic Church has explained. We see this when the concept of Charity is extended to even avoiding scandal (being a stumbling block) to our neighbor's faith, hope or charity, which Jesus Himself warned against.