Day: July 12, 2012

Cowardice asks the question, “Is it safe?” Expedience asks the question, “Is it politic?” Vanity asks the question, “Is it popular?” But, conscience asks the question, “Is it right?” —Rev….

The Christian must refuse to become a soldier—that is, to be ready on another’s command to kill all those one is ordered to kill. He cannot and must not take…

-by Franz Jagerstatter “One really has no cause to be astonished that there are many who can no longer find their way in the great confusion of the day. People…

William Manchester in his Pulitzer Prize nominated book, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, opens the door to truth a little, so that reality beyond the hermetically sealed…

—By Desiderius Erasmus (1467-1536), Catholic priest, biblical scholar, theologian “That the clergy cover over this most irreligious conduct [war] with the cloak of religion renders the evil less capable of…

Nonviolence, renunciation of domination and the consequent vulnerability are irrevocably embedded in the Church and its offices by the praxis of Jesus. When did the Church no longer venture to…

It is terrible to see how Jesus, with open eyes, let himself be impaled on the drawn knife–and yet could do no other without betraying the thing he had finally,…

Jesus told His disciples to love their enemies; He did not tell them to be good citizens. —Rev. John L. McKenzie

“War is mass murder…Do you really believe that Christianity will perish unless it be defended by war? If we do believe that, then we have deliberately passed a vote of…

Jesus’ admonition, “Render to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God” is not a statement about being a good citizen. The question it demands that…