Men everywhere thirst for justice and peace. Peace without justice is bound to fail. Everywhere we can see that this is not  a platitude but is a simple statement of fact. Our Church  knows this; all human beings know this too. Our family without justice cannot be at peace. In our family, justice is that we know the others have the right to everything that we want for ourselves; in the family there is no place for me to indulge my own wants and desires to the detriment of anyone else. How then can I break one family to claim that my new one is the place where my life bears witness to the justice that in human behaviour brings peace. I have done wrong; I am at fault so why do I need my Church to condone that which is false and unjust? The mercy of God is unending as is his forgiveness; but I must surrender myself to his will and plead for the mercy and forgiveness which will be truly mine as a result of repentance. I want to live in a new family as if there were no old one and I want to be considered by the Church to be in a state of grace. How many lies are piled onto each other?

Our church leaders spend much time working to achieve justice in the world. Our English Hierarchy spent most of the early part of the 20th  century squabbling with each other and the lay leaders of our  Faith about how to achieve a just settlement to the vexed question of Catholic Schools. Was there ever a just settlement to that question and can there ever be when the children of the "Lay Leaders continue to be educated at the schools which educated their fathers and which co-exist with their non-catholic counterparts as a source of injustice in this England? As long as there is a Religious Order ready to educate the children of the "worthy" who cares that the children of the poor, whose pence built the parochial schools, now receive their Catholic education in something called a "Faith School"? All of which is not really important. Let us pray that our Bishops and even our priests never lose sight that they are working and living to lead souls to heaven; that is the mission that was entrusted to Peter by Our Lord and please remember that dinner engagements/receptions and even cocktails even with the most delightful of company are not really of the stuff of eternity.