The Pope this year gives us what may appear to be an unusual theme to consider in our Lenten meditations: justice. Why justice? Is the Pope asking us to be the kind of peace and justice activist who ...

A friend of mine recently commented that the ‘social’ justice movement in America is alive and well, and that great things have been happening. It then occurred to me, when you put any word in front ...

My rite of passage was not a grandiose event. It did not come with a celebration. There were no parties or gifts or anything of the sort. My rite of passage was watching Trayvon Martin’s killer, and ...

A number of years ago this space entertained an interesting thought. If it is necessary to add an adjective to “justice,” then we were experiencing a distortion of reality and perhaps even the ...