{"id":879,"date":"2022-02-20T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=879"},"modified":"2025-09-29T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:30:08","slug":"good-america-magazine-article-turn-the-other-cheekbut-what-about-catholic-social-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=879","title":{"rendered":"Good America magazine article: Turn the other cheek but what about Catholic Social Justice?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202942f9a68ac200c-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jaime waters 2\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e202942f9a68ac200c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e202942f9a68ac200c-200wi\" style=\"width: 180px; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;\" title=\"Jaime waters 2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice short article by a woman theologian (<a href=\"https:\/\/las.depaul.edu\/academics\/catholic-studies\/faculty\/Pages\/jaime-waters.aspx\">Dr. Jamie Waters<\/a>) at DePaul University. You should be able to access the whole article without being blocked.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americamagazine.org\/faith\/2022\/02\/11\/love-enemies-justice-luke-tolton-242377?utm_source=piano&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=19036&amp;pnespid=6L19BiFOaLpEweGb_DTsHpSepA28BJB5NvSl0.l5rxdmN1D0RmXfeAUFbwgzpSGZHhlDhdAb\">&quot;Jesus calls us to turn the other cheek. But what does that mean in a world of corruption and injustice?&quot;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Jesus gives his followers multiple challenging commands, such as \u201clove your enemies, be good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you and pray for those who mistreat you.\u201d We know the command to love (<em>agape<\/em>) is a call to emulate God\u2019s divine, selfless love for all creation. With these instructions, Jesus requires the disciples to confront people doing evil but not reciprocate their hostility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Jesus opposed people and systems that created poverty and oppression, and this commitment is embedded in the Gospels. At the same time, Jesus responded to the needs of the world with love and mercy, and he wanted the same of his followers. We hear this explicitly with Jesus\u2019 statement to \u201cbe merciful, just as your Father is merciful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We should notice that Jesus\u2019 command is not to love injustice and ignore corruption. Jesus does not want us to accept abuse, tolerate racism or overlook the root causes of suffering in society. Rather, he wants us to be actively, creatively and mercifully engaged in preventing and solving the problems of the world. Today\u2019s Gospel is not about passively acquiescing to corrupt forces, which is a misinterpretation of Jesus\u2019 call to turn the other cheek.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nice short article by a woman theologian (Dr. Jamie Waters) at DePaul University. You should be able to access the whole article without being blocked. &quot;Jesus calls us to turn the other cheek. But what does that mean in a world of corruption and injustice?&quot; Jesus gives his followers multiple challenging commands, such as \u201clove [&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-879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","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=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6773,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions\/6773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}