[Those with the luck to be born into privilege] will certainly not need a proactive state; they need only claim their freedom. Yet the same rule clearly does not apply to a disabled person, to someone born in dire poverty, to those lacking a good education and with little...

I call on the United States and all parties involved in the negotiations, to work for the immediate release of all these victims of the deadly October 7, 2023 attacks, and to restore the ceasefire to prevent further loss of life. The further devastation of Gaza will have...

We are witnessing numerous popular protests all over the world — in many parts — expressing the growing unease of civil society in the face of particularly critical political and social situations. While I urge the demonstrators to present their demands peacefully, without...

Enable us to be as daring as the newly inspired apostles—to be bold in our defense of the right of all persons to feel safe wherever we are, unafraid of being forever silenced by those who are armed with weapons and anger and sometimes even hatred. Give us the courage to...

In the Gaza Strip, the cry of mothers, of fathers who clutch the lifeless bodies of children and who are continually forced to move in search of a little food and safer shelter from bombing, rises ever more intensely to the sky. I renew my appeal to the leaders: cease fire,...

We need to feel outrage as Moses did (Exodus 11.8), as Jesus did (Mark 3.5), as God does in the face of injustice (Amos 2.4–8, 5.7–12, Psalm 106.40). It is not good for us to become inured to evil; it is not good when our social consciousness is dulled before an...

It is shameful that we have lost our moral compass as a nation. The Reconciliation bill voted in by the House last week is scandalous with its exorbitant increases for the Pentagon and a mass deportation apparatus that has been cruelly tearing families apart, disappearing...

As people of faith, we lament the loss of life from gun violence in communities across the country and support proven preventive efforts. Moreover, we are the spiritual first responders to gun violence. We support the injured and afflicted, and we comfort the bereaved...

This season we commemorate the 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, which was published May 24th and delivered to the world on June 18th. To mark the occasion, the Mercy Justice Team has drafted a letter to members of...

Too often, arms are sent around the world with insufficient attention to how they threaten peace, development, and human rights...At a time when our country is increasingly reluctant to share its economic resources in support of sustainable economic development, we remain...

Too often we have seen how guns are used in the public forum by someone acting in anger. ... People with guns in public areas can become the aggrieved, the jury, and the judge, in swift and violent sequence. Passions can quickly escalate when a gun is present in a...