Weekly Reflection

August 7, 2017
If there is no friendship with them and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals. …
July 31, 2017
When we contemplate the globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the…
July 24, 2017
As you press on for justice, be sure to move with dignity and discipline, using only the weapon of love. Let no one pull you so low as to hate.…
July 17, 2017
To be just, it is not enough to refrain from injustice. One must go further, and refuse to play it’s game: substituting love for self-interest as the driving force of…
July 10, 2017
In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation can disassociate itself.  Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security…
July 3, 2017
Justice grows out of recognition of ourselves in each other — that my liberty depends on you being free too. (Barack Obama)
June 26, 2017
Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons,…
June 19, 2017
There is no worse material poverty than poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work.  (Pope Francis)
June 12, 2017
The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.  (John F. Kennedy)
June 5, 2017
We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources.  But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the…