Tomorrow evening, President Bush will speak to the country about his plan to send more U.S. troops to Iraq. The question is, where will they come from? The military is already overstretched. The Los Angeles Times reported this morning that men and women in the National Guard and Reserve who have already served in Iraq,…

If there is among you anyone in need … do not be hard-hearted or tight-fisted toward your needy neighbor. You should rather open your hand, willingly lending enough to meet the need, whatever it may be. – Deuteronomy 15:7-8+ Sign up to receive our social justice verse of the day via e-mail

What made the teaching of Jesus different and apparently so hard to accept then as now, was that it required a critical reassessment of the structures and values and attitudes of human society as his listeners and followers shared in it. – Monika K. Hellwigfrom Jesus: The Compassion of God (The Liturgical Press, 1983)+ Sign…

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