Two of the most stirring images of the Pope Francis center on a person with a disability.
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More reaction to Mandela’s passing
As South Africans prepared to bury Nelson Mandela on December 6, tributes from around the world began pouring in, acclaiming a man who brought South Africa back from the brink of revolution and through a slow, sometimes painful process of reconciliation.
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Nelson Mandela: Minister of Reconciliation
Nelson Mandela not only forgave; he wanted the injured to forgive and the offenders to accept responsibility and with it the forgiveness he offered to them.
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We should not raze Sandy Hook from our conscience. We have not earned that mercy.
Sandy Hook should not have happened. Those 20 children and six teachers and administrators should not have died.
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A President for Peace: The deadly consequences of J.F.K.’s attempts at reconciliation
The day President John F. Kennedy was murdered, a Divine Word seminarian walked up the hill to our family’s apartment in Rome to tell my wife Sally and me the terrible news. Seeking wisdom, I wrote Dorothy Day.
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Eating the Apple: On being baptized into a technological religion
The dogmatic thinking that convinced us that a phone could (should!) be a sheer piece of glass, that a swipe of a finger on a screen should feel like moving a real object, and that the Internet should be in our pockets has opened up tremendous possibilities.
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The Founding Father: Nelson Mandela and the re-creation of South Africa
How did this man so profoundly capture the aspiration and passion of an entire nation as he did mine that day in May 1994?
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Should marijuana be legal?
From 2013: Enforcing marijuana laws seriously drains social resources and contributes to the nation’s unconscionably high incarceration rate.
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Pursuing the Truth in Love: The mission of ‘America’ in a 21st-century church
The mission of America, wrote its first editor in chief, is not only to “chronicle events of the day and the progress of the church” but also to “stimulate effort and originate movements for the betterment of the masses.” When John Wynne, S.J., penned those words in 1909, he
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Tearing Down Fences in Boston
Job crying out to God for an account of the tragedies that had befallen him and his family hears a response from the depths of the whirlwind Who is this who darkens counsel with words of ignorance nbsp Gird up your loins – now like a man I will question you and you tell me the answers Where we