Daniel Maguire, our feature writer, is professor of religious ethics at Marquette University, where he specializes on issues of social justice and medical and ecological ethics. He is the author of 11 books, including “The Horrors We Bless: Rethinking the Just-War Legacy” and “The Moral Core of Judaism and Christianity.”

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The International Criminal Court opened its doors on July 1, 2002.

It is the first treaty-based international court set up to prosecute individuals for the worst acts known to man: genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Currently, 122 countries are parties to the Statute of the Court, 31 others have signed the Statute but have not yet ratified it.

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Tradition has it that Jerusalem’s Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa Mosque were built upon the ruins of King Solomon’s Temple, destroyed by the Romans in 70AD.

But what if the ruins aren’t there?

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According to Dr. Charles Villa-Vicencio, the author of our April-May Link, the church is in a constant struggle  between being a church in captivity to the dominant powers of its time and an alternative church that seeks to be obedient to one who resisted the occupation of first-century Palestine by choosing to be on the side of the poor and the oppressed.  This May, Pope Francis goes to the Holy Land.  Which prompts the obvious question that underlies our issue: Which tradition will this unpredictable pope represent?

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Grace Halsell is a familiar name to most readers of The Link.  During the 1980s and ‘90s, her essays on the politics of Christian Zionism, the dispossession of Palestinian Christians, violence against Muslim women in Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo, and her illuminating portrait of Yasser Arafat, were among the most widely circulated articles to appear in these pages. 

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