Army of Priests

The words of Desmond Tutu (Nobel Laureate, Anglican archbishop of South Africa, and chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation commission) in his book No Future without Forgiveness (pg 54-55):

Retributive Justice’s chief goal is to be punitive, so that the wronged party is really the state, something impersonal, which has little consideration for the real victims and almost none for the perpetrator.

We contend that there is another kind of justice, which was characteristic of traditional African jurisprudence. Here the central concern is not retribution or punishment. In the spirit of ubuntu ["We are human through other humans"], the central concern is the healing of breaches, the releasing of imbalances, the restoration of broken relationships, a seeking to rehabilitate both the victim and the perpetrator, who should be given an opportunity to be reintegrated into the community he has injured by his offence.

The words of Desmond Tutu (Nobel Laureate, Anglican archbishop of South Africa, and chairman of the Truth and Reconciliation commission) in his book No Future Without Forgiveness (pg 85):

God does not give up on anyone, for God loved us all eternity, God loves us now and God will always love us, all of us good and bad, forever and ever. His love will not let us go, for God’s love for us, all of us, good and bad, is unchanging, is unchangeable. Someone has said there is nothing I can do to make God love me more, for God loves me perfectly already. And wonderfully, there is nothing I can do to make God love me less. God loves me as I am to help me become all that I have it in me to become, and when I realise the deep love God has for me, I will strive for love’s sake to do what pleases my lover. Those who think this opens the door to moral laxity have obviously never been in love for love is much more demanding than law. An exhausted mother, ready to drop dead into bed, will think nothing of sitting the whole night through by the bed of her sick child.