Film showing & talkback session: “A Justice That Heals”
Date and time: Tuesday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.m.
Location: Goshen College Umble Center
Cost: Free and open to the public

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Goshen College will host a showing of the documentary “A Justice That Heals,” On Tuesday, Sept. 6, at 7 p.m., in the Umble Center, with a talkback session following the film with the producer and several people who appeared in the documentary. The event is free and open to the public.

“A Justice That Heals” explores the aftermath of a senseless murder of a 19-year-old young man named Andrew Young by an 18-year-old named Mario Ramos. According to WTTW, the Chicago PBS affiliate that produced it, the documentary “reveals the human journey to find redemption and a form of justice that heals.”

The one-hour documentary originally aired on WTTW in Chicago in April 2000. Produced by Jay Shefsky, “A Justice That Heals” opens with Mario Ramos, in prison, recounting a dream he had before the crime: blood on his hands, police, a murder. He knew it was coming, he says, yet he did nothing to stop it. Then, Mario and his victim’s twin brother recount Andrew Young’s murder. Andrew’s parents enter the story, then Mario’s parents. Finally, we meet Father Robert Oldershaw, a priest with the courage to “love the sinner” while he “hated the sin.”

“What interested me so much about this story was that it showed people taking justice into their own hands in a positive way,” said Shefsky. “Initially I wanted to make a program that focused on the family of an inmate, but when I spoke to Father Oldershaw, I realized that this was the story of two families, two sons.”