Brotherly Love?

So I'm currently sitting in the lobby of my hotel in Philadelphia. The city of Brotherly Love. But really? How brotherly or loving is it?

According to this guy I met on a boat ride in NYC, the murder rate from January to March of this year was higher than all of NYC last year. Do you know how insane that is? Of course, I don't know if this is actually true. it's all hearsay, but even if it was only partially correct, that still is crazy to think about.

I'm a rather hard core Catholic. I'm not gonna lie. And while I don't agree with everything the Catholic Church or the Pope has to say, I do believe in a lot of it. Like that we must treat our neighbors as ourselves. Basically to practice brotherly love.

In today's society though it's so hard to believe in brotherly love. With the number of teen deaths by shootings this year in Chicago going up the wazoo (this I know is true. I used to know the exact number, but from the beginning of the last school year (this past September) until the end, (This June) the numbers were higher than usual), with the war in Iraq and Afghanistan only growing, how could anyone possibly believe that there are good people in the world who really do believe in brotherly love.

But I suppose that's what faith is all about. Believing in the impossible. And hoping that everything will turn out alright.