On Memorial Day: A Gospel Metanoia
A proposal that we all embrace the courage, sacrifice and bravery of our fallen soldiers in the service of a Gospel metanoia this Memorial Day.
Megan Wilson-Reitz is a lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at John Carroll University. She is a long-time member of the extended community network of the Cleveland Catholic Worker, with whom she has gotten in trouble many times while advocating publicly for a more just and peaceful world. She and her husband are raising two tiny Catholic radicals in the City of Cleveland.
A proposal that we all embrace the courage, sacrifice and bravery of our fallen soldiers in the service of a Gospel metanoia this Memorial Day.
If I could only be half as erudite, half as prophetic, half as outrageous, as even one of Daniel Berrigan’s writings or actions, I would consider my life successfully and faithfully lived. He is truly a Christian for our times.
During his address to Congress yesterday, Pope Francis named Dorothy Day among four great Americans who “shaped fundamental values which will endure forever in the spirit of the American people.”
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