Two different responses to racial inequality and isolation in South Africa.

Two of the most stirring images of the Pope Francis center on a person with a disability.

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.

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.

Sandy Hook should not have happened. Those 20 children and six teachers and administrators should not have died.

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.