{"id":1426,"date":"2018-11-30T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1426"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:26:32","slug":"a-quote-from-fr-james-martin-sj-on-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1426","title":{"rendered":"A quote from Fr. James Martin, SJ on social justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a few months ago on his twitter account. Glad I came across it.&#0160; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Martin_(priest)\"><strong>Fr. Martin<\/strong><\/a> is an American <a class=\"mw-redirect\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jesuit\" title=\"Jesuit\">Jesuit<\/a> priest, a writer, and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Editor-at-large\" title=\"Editor-at-large\">editor-at-large<\/a> of the Jesuit magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/America_(magazine)\" title=\"America (magazine)\"><em>America<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"AOLMsgPart_2_09f7ebee-0d0f-463c-8808-c204172b5ea1\">\n<div class=\"aolReplacedBody\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;\"><a class=\"aolmail_account-group aolmail_js-account-group aolmail_js-action-profile aolmail_js-user-profile-link aolmail_js-nav\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JamesMartinSJ\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"aolmail_FullNameGroup\"> <strong class=\"aolmail_fullname aolmail_show-popup-with-id aolmail_u-textTruncate aolmail_\">James Martin, SJ<\/strong>\u200f<span class=\"aolmail_UserBadges\"><span class=\"aolmail_Icon aolmail_Icon--verified\"><span class=\"aolmail_u-hiddenVisually\">Verified account<\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"aolmail_UserNameBreak\">&#0160;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"aolmail_username aolmail_u-dir aolmail_u-textTruncate\" dir=\"ltr\">@<strong>JamesMartinSJ<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"aolmail_content aolmail_clearfix\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_js-tweet-text-container\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"aolmail_TweetTextSize aolmail_TweetTextSize--jumbo aolmail_js-tweet-text aolmail_tweet-text\" lang=\"en\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">What does it mean to be pro-social justice if you defend the life of a child on the border, but not the life of a child in the womb?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_js-tweet-details-fixer aolmail_tweet-details-fixer\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n<div class=\"aolmail_client-and-actions\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span class=\"aolmail_metadata\"> 1:38 PM &#8211; 26 May 2018 <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_client-and-actions\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<div class=\"aolmail_client-and-actions\">&#0160;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is from a few months ago on his twitter account. Glad I came across it.&#0160; Fr. Martin is an American Jesuit priest, a writer, and editor-at-large of the Jesuit magazine America. James Martin, SJ\u200fVerified account&#0160;@JamesMartinSJ &#0160; What does it mean to be pro-social justice if you defend the life of a child on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5337,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1426\/revisions\/5337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}