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 MoreWith the capture of Goma, Bukavu, and Uvira by the M23 and the Rwandan army, old spectres and old lies resurface. In discussing, explaining, and attempting to clarify the failure of MONUSCO in Congo, [...]
It is a limited but concrete, serious and far-sighted initiative. I sincerely hope that Italy has the wisdom to support it. The Commission should be tasked to ‘examine the physical effects [...]
First: Know the 10 Commandments to fail (Donald R. Keough). So, leave these behaviours Stop taking risks. Be inflexible. Seek to isolate yourself. Convince yourself of being infallible. [...]
To what extent was the Arab-Muslim conquest based on slavery? Shortly after the death of the Prophet Mohamed in 632, Muslim armies began a conquest northward, beyond the Arabian Peninsula. They [...]
Jesus' compassion for the crowd wandering in bewilderment, “like sheep that have no shepherd” (Mk 6:34), is the feeling of many who consider the situation of our land and of the world [...]