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The Just Word

Emerging voices offering inclusive, life-giving, and liberating commentary for those who preach, teach and outreach to Catholics today

April 28, 2024

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Today we invite you to explore the role of carceral violence in repression, through Jesus’s disciples in the Acts of the Apostles; engage the reality of the carceral state through the U.S. Bishops’ letter on reform, and the proliferation of “cop cities” and criminalizing laws; and embody the parallels between the disciples’ struggles and our own with a contemplation, and the resistance to Atlanta’s Cop City.