Jesus’ resurrection offers us the hope of new life.
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Mary Magdalene shows us how to proclaim Jesus' message of reconciliation and healing — even when we're afraid.
The violence of capital punishment does not have the final word — even on Good Friday.
On the first Holy Thursday, Jesus invited his human, fallible followers to sit at his table — and he does the same for us today.
Even as the victim of state-sanctioned killing, Jesus exemplified a self-emptying love that we are called to mirror.
God is not indifferent to suffering, he mourns in the depths of our pain.
Just as he once held Jesus, St. Joseph carries the hurts and hopes of our wayward world.
When we accept our "blindness" and vulnerabilities, we start to see God anew.
Jesus' encounter with the woman at the well is a remarkable expression of restorative justice.
Let's not let the noisiness of our lives drown out the sound of God's voice.
We all experience "desert moments." God will help us through them, if we allow him.
Faith isn't about shining a spotlight on ourselves. We have to cast our light outward, illuminating the dignity of others.
Jesus came to be present with us. We can embody that presence in our ministry to others.
During his time as a prison chaplain, Dr. Arturo Chávez met many "Juan Diegos" — men lost in the darkness of personal shame and systemic injustice.
"Lord, come and save us" is a refrain prayed by crime victims, the incarcerated, and those burdened by our broken criminal legal system.
Mary is there to comfort any mother who has lost a child — whether to illness, death, or incarceration.
God promises a justice far greater than the one offered by our criminal legal system.
If we "stay awake" we may see the Son of Man coming in even the most unlikely of places — like on death row.
Just as the stone of Jesus' tomb was rolled away to reveal the resurrected Christ, let us work together to remove the stones of oppression and reveal a more just world.
Fr. Larry Dowling describes Jesus's tomb as the womb of the Earth: the place in which we must sit with the suffering of the world in order to emerge resurrected.