Category Archives: Reflections

When Will We Ever Learn?

The images are so familiar. A mother, arms raised to the skies, mouth frozen in a silent scream. The dazed, earnest eyes of young men carrying the wounded on their backs. The single shoe. The random toy. The blood-soaked sheets. Read more [...]

Fasting for Freedom

And who has been fasting more than the people of Gaza? Who has experienced more hunger?  The hunger for freedom of movement, the hunger to live without being bombed, the hunger to live securely in one's own home, the hunger for freedom.  The hunger to be heard in a world that chooses not to listen. Read more [...]

Christmas Eve 2009

We believe in a Big God of surprises – a wild, wide-hearted God whose spirit of justice, peace, and healing blows where She wills. We are waiting for and expecting a miracle! Read more [...]

Of Poverty and Plenty: Reflections on Haiti

Haiti does not need our sympathy or our expressions of despair on her behalf. She needs our conversion and our solidarity and our resources (that are not ours anyway). Read more [...]

Peacemaking from the Heart

 . . . our greatest gift to the world is a heart that is open to the pain of our sisters and brothers. Ironically, the sheer joy that is peacemaking is in exact proportion to the grief that we are willing to carry. Read more [...]

Something’s Burning

 Yes, something is burning . . . Iraq.  And we set the fire.  We’re losing our souls alright, but not at the local movie house. Read more [...]

Here I am, George . . . Come and Get Me

Far be it from me to ask the government to spend money it needs to wage war and enrich the arms industry to hunt down yet another peace activist. Therefore, I consider it my civic duty to say, “Here I am, George. Come and get me.”  Read more [...]

Closing Schools Is Same as Turning Back on Students

I don’t recall Jesus saying, “Let the children come unto me . . . only if they’re Catholic.” Read more [...]

A Preferential Option for the Privileged

What a teachable moment it would have been if just a single man in his clerical garb had descended the steps of the cathedral and stood on the sidewalk in solidarity with our students. Read more [...]

The Closing of City’s Catholic Schools: A Long Way From Resurrection

Pardon me if I write with an uncommon rage, but today as the Cardinal announces the closing of every archdiocesan high school in Detroit the heavens are crying out for justice. Read more [...]