At a dark, difficult, dangerous time in our common life, one could do much worse than forgiveness, sacrifice, and redemption as things to be reminded of, and to believe in.
By Timothy P. O’Malley
On the eighth day after his birth, before receiving the “name above all names” (Phil. 2:9), Jesus was circumcised.
The temptation is...
The world of The Irishman is a deeply moral one, with a strong sense of retribution and justice, but without much hope of reconciliation or redemption for its central characters.
We prefer to think that evil is something “bad people” do, and that these bad people are easily recognizable. We see a mug shot on the news and say “Oh, he looks like a child molester, like a mass shooter, like a serial killer, like a bad person. Or as often as not today we think of evil as that perpetrated only by our political opposites. We describe such people as “inhuman” or “deplorable”, descriptors that gives us the relief of distance. The guise evil wears is, of course, always that of someone else.
