We have learned to put things, issues, problems, yes – even sin in compartments with labels.

It is more convenient to put a label on something and quietly store it somewhere than it is to sort it out and deal with it directly.

We will, as individuals and as a society, never grow or be healed unless we realize that compartments make up and affect the whole – and therefore cannot be separated.

Until we realize this, people will continue to be “justifiably” isolated, hated, incarcerated, medicated and aborted.

“Common good” is only as whole as the sum of its parts.