It's OK to get angry

Thanks to two individuals--Bishop Carranza of the Diocese of Los Angeles and Jasper Goldberg, a high school student who attends Church of our Savior in Mill Valley, California--who have helped frame for me why getting angry is not inconsistent with loving our enemies (after all, they wouldn't be our enemies if all was sweetness and light).

As Bishop Carranza points out, it was St. Thomas Aquinas who said: "He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust."

The link for Bishop Carranza's statement is to Susan Russell's blog, "An Inch At A Time here, Jasper Goldberg's statement can be found on Bishop Marc Andrus' blog here and Father Jake Stops the World here.