An Eye for an Eye

An Eye for an Eye
LEVITICUS 24: 10- 23

Two or three years ago, the Archbishop of Los Angeles was attacked one night near the cathedral as he went out to mail a letter. His assailant simply went up to him, punched him, pushed him to the ground, and kicked him. He was bruised but not seriously hurt. He did not report the incident to the police but referred to it in speaking to some of his clergy a few weeks later, and this is how it eventually got into the newspapers. Obviously if he had reported it to the police and they had been able to find the man, he would have been tried, convicted, and punished for the assault...