September 26, 2016

Guantánamo Diary belongs in a canon of great social justice memoirs not only for the unique context in which the story was written but also for its power and eloquence.

There are radiant truths within these Catholic documents. And then, it seems, the darker shroud of Rome is thrown down and ruins it all.

the murky water veiled those pleas the history books obscure as when numbers steal prisoners’ names.

“We have done only what we ought to have done” (Lk 17:10)

Social justice categories are applied to questions of sex, and the church is found wanting.

Today, a single atom bomb dropped on a major city would immediately kill hundreds of thousands.

To do right is never easy.