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Forgive us our Debts as we Forgive our Debtors

Forgive Us Our Debts As We Forgive Our Debtors: Mercy and Justice in the Political and Economic Sphere – Part I We begin with a dream (or perhaps more accurately a fantasy).  What, if in the days following what we now refer to as 9.11, people’s minds and hearts turned...

Justice and Mercy on the Way to Love

In the previous meditation, we embarked on an exploration of the somewhat tense if not actually tortured relationship between mercy and justice.  We also highlighted the various “station stops” we would make along the way.  This first such “station stop” simply seeks...

A Wideness in God’s Mercy, A Kindness in God’s Justice

Before moving forward it might prove useful to pursue a series of five meditations on the relationship between mercy and justice.  In the first meditation, the relationship between mercy and justice as enshrined in Pope Francis’ Bull of Indiction is noted (primarily...

Every (Sun)Day Is “Divine Mercy” (Sun)Day

Every (Sun)Day Is “Divine Mercy” (Sun)Day: Every Eucharist, a Thanksgiving for God’s Mercy Pope Francis issued his Bull of Indiction, Misericordiae Vultus (“The Face of Mercy”), on April 11, 2013, the Vigil of the Second Sunday of Easter, now officially inscribed in...
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