During the Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time, we encountered an image of God as mother. In today’s Gospel, we hear language depicting God using the image of a father. The first reading and the Gospel ...

The grounds for human flourishing. Together with two of my colleagues at Yale Divinity School, David Kelsey (emeritus) and John Hare, I have started a multiyear project entitled “God and Human ...

Bill Haley wrote the following in support of social justice: “Social justice is important for the simplest of reasons … it’s a prevalent theme in the Bible. That’s justification enough as we want to ...

The continual oppression and injustice destroying Black communities since 1619 is a national health crisis that has now risen to a state of emergency. The list of murdered Black Americans is endless.

God is the source of justice, and He wants His servants to be just and fair. Oppression and injustice lead to destruction in this and the next life. People of faith must be always upright and pursue ...

In his homily, the pope compared the lives and circumstances of two women described in the day’s Mass readings: Susanna and the woman caught in adultery. Pope Francis waves at pilgrims inside St.

Pope Francis has emphasized the importance of the virtue of justice in a message for the upcoming World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. “God wants justice to reign; it is as essential to our ...