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 MoreIt 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. [...]
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 [...]
In the middle of the Sudanese desert, hundreds of kilometres from the famous pyramids of Giza, stands a collection of little-known monuments that bear witness to an equally fascinating civilisation. [...]
In his miserable hut, Pierre was spending the saddest Christmas Eve he had ever known. An orphaned Frenchman who had one day found himself heir to ten thousand francs left by a distant relative, he [...]