Once more, we are confronted with deadly violence that jarringly erupts, disrupts and changes forever the lives of it immediate victims and leaves society scarred well beyond the nearby community.  This time it was at a Planned Parenthood Clinic, next to a shopping center the day after Thanksgiving at the height of the Christmas buying season.  Because of the site of the killings, even before the full extent of the motivation is clear, it is imperative that this action be condemned in the strongest terms, especially by those of us who believe in the sanctity, dignity and quality of human life at all its stages.  Murderous violence has no place…

Monsignor Sullivan focuses JustLove this week on the aftermath of the Paris terror attacks and the enormously changed environment for understanding religious diversity, violence, war and peace. On this week’s show. Dalia Mogahed, Director of Research for the Institute of Social Policy talks about the attacks and the recently staged airstrikes against ISIS. Dr. Matthew Shadle, Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at Marymount University talks about how France and the international community are responding to those attacks from a Catholic perspective.

Monsignor Sullivan speaks with two guest who are familiar with the lives of Catholic social activists. Paul M. Pearson, Director and Archivist for the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY talks about his research and work based on Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk and writer. Also on the show is Robert Ellsberg, Publisher at Orbis Books. He talks about Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.

Monsignor Sullivan speaks with guests Dr. Jim Withers, Founder and leader at Operation Safety Net and Heidi Powers, Founder and Director of Collide NYC. Dr. Withers, talks about what inspired him to go out and help the homeless. While Heidi Powers discusses with Monsignor how her organization helps homeless individuals and their companion animals.