Hello, my name is Father Gregory Pine and I am a, what am I, I'm a Dominican

friar of the province of St. Joseph and I teach at the Dominican House of

Studies and I work as an assistant director for the Tomistic Institute and this is Pines with the Kwanis.

In this episode I'd like to talk about justice.

Why?

Because justice is all the rage these days.

Everyone is asking for justice or demanding justice or

insisting upon justice. But my fear is that the justice that is being proposed is

a justice that's somehow been taken out of context divorced from the

Christian tradition and as a result of which kind of perverted or twisted. So I'd like to

talk a little bit about justice but talk about justice in the setting in which God intends it to take root in your life and to bring about your salvation.

So here we go.

Okay, so justice. justice is that virtue by which we give to another his due with a constant and perpetual

will. All right, so do there you hear a language which will often bring with it the notion of rights.

There's a sense that we as human beings are born into a network of relationships.

All right, so we're created by God.

We're born of these parents, we're citizens of this country.

We are already related to these various persons as a result of the pre-existent kind of

institutions or networks into which we have been inserted, all right? And in

recognition of who these people are and how these people stand to me

there are certain things that I owe them and maybe there are certain things that they

owe me. So there's this sense with do or right that there's a gift that goes before us like we can only ever insist upon

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