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FROM THE ARCHIVE: 6/24/2020. This week we celebrate two days of celebration—Juneteenth and the Summer Solstice. The Feast Day of Juneteenth honors the enforcement of the
In his commentary on the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew’s gospel, Aquinas defines compassion this way: To be compassionate is to have a heart
In yesterday’s Father’s Day DM, both essay and video, we celebrated Thomas Aquinas as a spiritual father to myself, and so many other people. In
Having spent the last DMs on the bad news of Christofascism and Patriarchy and their many incarnations at SCOTUS and Opus Dei, it is a
I write this on the day of the funeral for Alexei Navalny who died for a more just Russia. I pause our meditations on him,
The God of creation is also the God of history and of liberation/salvation as is clear from the prophets. Indeed, the prophets who preach justice and
Norman Lear was a champion of moral imagination, as all prophets are. I believe Norman Lear was a holy man employing a saintliness fit for
We have been meditating on the union of Joy and Justice. I offer the following question: Are fascists joyful? Is there joy in fascism? Fascism or
In the prophetic tradition of Israel, justice and compassion go together. “Compassion means justice,” Eckhart reminds us. Eckhart is not alone in connecting compassion and justice. Mechtild
In her doctoral thesis on the theme of “Royal Personhood,” Helen Kenik points out that in Judaism, “the ideal of kingship was seldom realized”* and
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