What do you do when you see a homeless person on the side of the road? How do you react when you hear about violence in Syria? What is your response to the overwhelming scientific evidence that humans… Read More
Posted on October 22, 2014 by CaseyOFM
A few years ago, I wrote a post entitled “If You Want Peace, Work For Justice” that made this distinction between social charity and social justice: charity identifies a need and fulfills it while justice asks why there was a need in the first… Read More
Posted on July 4, 2014 by CaseyOFM
As I’ve mentioned on a few occasions, one of the defining characteristics of Franciscans (and one of the main reasons that I was drawn to this life in the first place) is our call to peace and justice… Read More
Posted on February 21, 2014 by CaseyOFM
Another weekend, another whirlwind tour of the province: three provincial presentations, four churches (including two weekend masses), three Smithsonian museums, and two workshop lectures. Ho hum… just another weekend as a Holy Name Province postulant! The trip was centered… Read More
When Catholics speak about “justice,” we tend to think about things such as the fair treatment of workers, peace, living wages, freedom from enslavement, etc. The images that come to mind are almost exclusively economic and peace related…. Read More
Breaking In The Habit