Facebook
Twitter
LinkedIn
Instagram
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Books
  • Retreats
  • Interviews
  • Resources
  • Reflections
  • Other Resources
  • Donate
  • Blog
  • Contact Us
Product was added to your cart

Cart

2012 – Fast Food Thirty-Fifth Helping

August 4, 2012adminBlog - Fast Food 2012

Neither the Church nor the Christian has any need for war in order to accomplish all that Jesus created them for and chose them to do in this life. Indeed, war is radically hostile to all that the Church and the Christian are, should be and should be about. War represents the concentration of everything that is irreconcilable with the will of God as revealed by Jesus. There are certainly evils other than war, and war—in preparation and in execution—brings all of them into human existence in spades. This is not the task Jesus assigned to His Church or to those He chose.

No Christian—bishop, priest, minister or layperson—can Christianize war by his or her participation in it, anymore than a Christian by his or her participation in a brothel can Christianize a brothel. Can a Christian morally choose to participate in a brothel as a strategy to save the immortal soul of another person working there? If not, then how can a Christian morally participate in a war to save a piece of land, an economy, a political system or the Dauphin? For, if one cannot morally change or modify or set aside the teachings of Jesus regarding God’s will for the greater task, to save an immortal soul, a fortiori, one cannot morally change or set aside or modify the teachings of Jesus to do the lesser task, save a mortal, totally perishable entity, e.g.the state, democracy, capitalism, communism, etc.

How long, O Lord, how long?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_O860l8u3U&feature=youtu.be

-ECM

Tags: christian nonviolence, Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, Fasting, Gospel nonviolence, Love your enemies, Nonviolent Jesus, Nonviolent Way
admin
Previous post 2012 – Fast Food Thirty-Fourth Helping Next post 2012 – Fast Food Thirty-Sixth Helping

Related Articles

FAST FOOD (AD 2019): First Helping

July 3, 2019admin

Vocations and Prayer Issue 72 – It is Finished A Priestly Vocation of Mercy

September 16, 2012admin

2012 – Fast Food Thirty-First Helping

July 31, 2012admin

Recent Posts

  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Fortieth Helping
  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Thirty-Ninth Helping
  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Thirty-Eighth Helping
  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Thirty-Seventh Helping
  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Thirty-Sixth Helping

Recent Comments

  • admin on Fast Food 2022 1st Jul to 9th Aug (40th Anniversary)
  • Patrick on Fast Food 2022 1st Jul to 9th Aug (40th Anniversary)
  • Elbon Kilpatrick on First Homily by Fr. McCarthy – September 13, 1981
  • Sally Gould on First Homily by Fr. McCarthy – September 13, 1981
  • Jan J Wnekn on First Homily by Fr. McCarthy – September 13, 1981

Recent Posts

  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Fortieth Helping August 10, 2023
  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Thirty-Ninth Helping August 8, 2023
  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Thirty-Eighth Helping August 7, 2023
  • FAST FOOD (AD 2023): Thirty-Seventh Helping August 6, 2023
October 2023
M T W T F S S
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
3031  
« Aug    

Tags

A Christian Response to Terrorism August 9 The Censer Behold the lamb capital punishment christian nonviolence christians in the military Christmas civil disobedience Collection for the Catholic Military Archdiocese Death electing a pope Emmanuel Charles charlie McCarthy Emmanuel Charles McCarthy emmanuel mccarthy fast food Fasting Gospel Gospel nonviolence jesus journal kingdom of the lamb Love your enemies Meaning Mercy Mercy:The essence of the Gospel Mercy and the Gospel military chaplain Nonviolence Nonviolent Jesus Nonviolent Mercy Nonviolent Way oath pope's final day pope benedict's resignation pope resigns pope resigns 2013 prayer prayer for peace Resurrection spanish swearing The Lamb Rich in Mercy vocations Vocations and prayer issues when a pope resigns zabelka

Categories

  • 'Special Topics (10)
  • Action Against Violence (13)
  • Audio Files (11)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2012 (42)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2014 (40)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2016 (42)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2018 (40)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2019 (40)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2020 (1)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2013 (40)
  • Blog – Fast Food 2015 (40)
  • Booklets (11)
  • Books (5)
  • Edith Stein (6)
  • Fast Food Helpings (Previous) (199)
    • Blog – Fast Food 2022 (1)
  • Home (8)
  • Images of War (16)
  • Jesus Journal (8)
  • Other Resources (194)
    • Blog – Fast Food 2023 (40)
  • Retreats (3)
  • Special topics (64)
  • The Nonviolent Eucharist (5)
  • Transcripts (10)
  • Uncategorized (36)
  • Videos (17)
  • Vocations and Prayer Articles (26)

About Us

The full embracing of Gospel Nonviolence calls for a radical alteration in thought patterns, verbal patterns, behavioral patterns, and emotional patterns. That is, it requires a completely different reality orientation and self-understanding.

Quick Links

  • Faq’s
  • Privacy Policy
  • Sitemap
  • Terms & Conditions

Contacts

8 Moneynoe Park Enniskillen , Co. Fermanagh Northern Ireland, BT74 4ER
Facebook
Vimeo
Behance
Instagram
Xing
SoundCloud
Copyright © 2021 All Rights Reserved by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy