Gospel for today: the Beatitudes, which Pope Francis has called the Christian’s identity card. Many of the blessings—to the poor in spirit, the merciful, the peacemakers—speak to the demands of our moment. But perhaps none so directly as “Blessed are those who mourn.”

Mourning in this case is not a matter of just being sad—it is matter of maintaining one’s sensitivity to the wounds of the world, of refusing to accommodate oneself to injustice and the “way things are.”