In the Bible the two great attributes of God are justice and mercy. While on the surface they may seem to be opposites, they exist in a creative tension, in which God’s mercy generally wins out.

In my column last week I used the verse from Micah 6:8 about what the Lord requires: To do justice, love mercy and walk humbly with God. Do justice, love mercy, walk humbly. One of my favorite ...

Mercy and justice are not contradictory realities, “but two dimensions of a single reality that unfolds progressively until it culminates in the fullness of love.” U.S. Supreme Court Justices ...

And earthly power doth then show likest God’s When mercy seasons justice. Portia links mercy with the power and character of God and suggests that when the balance between mercy and justice must ...

We have to be clear about this very heartwarming truth of our faith. God is always willing to forgive us no matter how grave our sins are. He always offers forgiveness to us and it is all up to us ...

"God's justice is his mercy," Francis observed, praying that as God's children, we would be open "to his divine mercy, and readily and generously share it with our brothers and sisters." ...

"From the Catholic perspective, justice is a cardinal virtue from which all else flows, with justice being 'the moral virtue that consists in the constant and firm will to give their due to God ...

In his homily, the pope compared the lives and circumstances of two women described in the day’s Mass readings: Susanna and the woman caught in adultery.

Similarly, it could be counted as a mercy that, unlike Donald J. Trump’s victory in 2016, the Electoral College and popular vote results seem likely to be in agreement in this election, and that ...

To be just requires a suspension of the compassion that leads to mercy. On the High Holy Days, we imagine God switching back and forth between sitting on one throne of justice and one throne of mercy.

Mercy and justice embrace Pencil Preaching for Sunday, April 3, 2022. Spirituality. ... His message of God’s mercy will merit death under the crushing weight of the stone tablets of the Law.

The same God who cares for the unborn children we regularly go to war for burns with a white-hot love for those children at our border. ... Mercy and justice at the border.