Veteran actor and social justice activist Martin Sheen told Loyola Marymount University graduates to “go about the world bringing justice, healing and mercy” at a commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 6, on the Westchester campus.
“The world opens up to us with an equal measure of opportunity and responsibility but the more the world changes, the more it remains the same, because the most important needs of every human being on earth are not only food, clothing and shelter, but equally the need for justice, healing and mercy,” Sheen told the graduates. “Without the latter, the former are useless.”
Sheen’s long performing career includes more than 100 film roles over the last 60 years and a seven-year run on the NBC series The West Wing. He also has worked for decades as an activist for social causes, including homelessness, poverty, nuclear disarmament, environmentalism, and anti-war efforts. A longtime supporter of the Catholic Worker movement, Sheen played co-founder Peter Maurin in the film Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story.
Original story from LMU Newsroom.
Bishop Emeritus PJ McGrath of San Jose is dead. That is more important news than this blathering of Martin Sheen.
Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual Light shine upon him. May he rest in peace. Amen.
May Bishop Mc Grath, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. He did give a good sermon in a most pleasant voice when the relics of St. Therese of Lisieux came to the Carmelite Monastery in San Jose, CA, many years ago.
Is this some sort of competition?
Good administrator, terrible on Faith and Morals, rest in peace
Sheen is ” unabashedly pro-life” as a headline in irishcentral once reported and in many interviews has said he is ‘ personally against it ‘ but cannot judge others. I would haved hoped that the major human life issue of our declining world could have merited a mention as a way of concretizing the justice, love and mercy.
Subject word ‘ abortion’s by error left out, re ‘ major human life issue’
I’ve always thought that being a liberal Democrat, Martin Sheen would be pro-abort. I’ve never had any interest in him as a movie star, although I’ve seen “Apocalypse Now” and “Ghandi.”
Imagine my surprise to learn he was pro-life after all. In at least three interviews and articles about him in the internet, he claims to be pro-life. He says his wife was conceived in a rape and he is just happy his mother-in-law did not abort her. He also says a couple (or three) of his grandchildren were conceived outside of marriage, but he was glad his sons didn’t consent to having them aborted. He says he did not support Obama in his second term.
Why Sheen didn’t mention these in his speech about justice, love, and mercy at LMU is surprising. Or maybe he did, but the news writer did not.
I don’t think food, clothing and shelter are useless under any circumstances.
Sheen is an excellent actor and a faithful Catholic. I am thankful for his courage and his talent. It takes strong character these days to be a man of faith in the entertainment industry. Plus, she has a son, Charlie, whose antics and lifestyle are undoubtedly a thorn in Sheen’s side. God Bless Martin Sheen.
I remember him in On Golden Pond. Good movie and acting.
Not in that movie.
I appreciate Martin Sheen for his coming to our youth group at Blessed Sacrament in Hollywood in the early 1980s and talking to our high schoolers, all or most of whom came from low income families . I don’t remember what he said but just that he was there for us, a group of less fortunate students who would not expect someone of Sheen’s stature to make a visit. A Sr. Andrea Johnson CSJ and a friend of mine at the time arranged the visit, if my poor memory serves.
So thanks also to you, Sr. Andrea!
This fawning over celebrities is one the biggest of big red flags. Champion of TRANS agenda (he’s helping his 12 transition) Dwayne Wade was the speaker at my family member’s Katholik graduation this past June, you know, the basketball player that just had to leave Florida because drag queens won’t be allowed to read story hours to his and others’ kids, too draconian.
I love him in Star Wars.