What is this blog about? It’s about Justice, Peace & Integrity of Creation
Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation speaks to the daunting reality that we face in this poor, battered, wounded world. Poverty and starvation, sectarian violence, environmental degradation, global warming, the looming wars over water, the current violence in the name of oil, the battles over land and food, all these call us to change.
The crisis is real, but the first and last word is hope: we hope that there are things worth living for, things that give, bring and sustain life – love, reconciliation, compassion, justice, peace, solidarity and healing. We have indeed crafted a world that is at risk: heeding the Jesus’ message we can turn and live a different way: instead of culturing violence, to culture peace.
Read MoreEpiphanius, the monk, no longer gave himself peace: he set out on a journey; he travelled through Europe scrutinising every face. Nothing. There was no suitable face to represent Christ. [...]
Cardinal Pietro Parolin, 69, Vatican Secretary of State, is the Pope's closest collaborator and heads the Holy See's diplomacy. It is clear that he has spoken about this with Francis, after [...]
Perhaps the great problem of an open society is that few people want to live in an open society. It is difficult to come to a different conclusion in view of contemporary political reality: liberal [...]
William Shakespeare said, The only thing that has no answer is death. Jesus, a marginal and marginalised Jew, showed us that even death has an answer in the Passover, for it is the Lord's [...]
Certainly, the time that separates us from that appointment cannot be an idle pause, a vacatio, but rather a time of deepening, of confrontation and research on the part of theologians above all, on [...]