War and Peace

December 2018

December 27, 2018
Truth is, the whole thing is sickening, and this may be Jackson's greatest achievement. By...

January 2017

January 02, 2017
Last April, a number of prominent Catholic scholars and organizations focused on peacemaking (including my...

November 2014

November 11, 2014
ON THE MORNING of our last full day in France, we took an intercity train...

September 2014

September 08, 2014
I am troubled by all violence. I said this once to an Iraqi priest I...

July 2014

July 22, 2014
I'm not usually a big fan of Nicholas Kristof, but he has written a perceptive New...

November 2013

November 12, 2013
Attending daily Mass this morning, I was reminded of two observances taking place today, in...

September 2013

September 04, 2013
A few days before Pope Francis' heartfelt plea for peace in his Sunday Angelus message, President...
September 02, 2013
The pope's Sunday Angelus message this week contained an important announcement: the proclamation of Saturday, September 7...

August 2013

August 07, 2013
The following is intended primarily as a thought experiment.  As such, I think it reasonable...

July 2013

July 13, 2013
"All politicians take their decisions on the basis of national or political interest and explain...

April 2013

April 15, 2013
So they left ... rejoicing that they had been found worthy to suffer dishonor for...

December 2012

December 25, 2012
My wife and I have many customs at Christmastide.  Some are silly:  for example, on...

November 2012

November 19, 2012
As I write this on November 19, 2012, Israel's 'Operation Pillar of Cloud' is proceeding...

October 2012

October 09, 2012
One of the disturbing legacies of the past two decades is that war has become...

March 2012

March 13, 2012
Over the past number of years, the bishops in the United States seem to be...

December 2011

December 07, 2011
Less than thirty days before the Iowa Caucus, it appears that we are finally achieving...

September 2011

September 07, 2011
"We have acclimated ourselves to protracted warfare as a national way of life. Meanwhile a...

May 2011

May 30, 2011
Pope John Paul II famously said, “War is not always inevitable, it is always a...
May 25, 2011
War and violence are never means used by God in order to achieve a result....
May 02, 2011
There was much rejoicing. But should there be? Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,...

March 2011

March 27, 2011
After an article in L'Osservatore Romano decried France's hasty call for arms over Libya, and...
March 23, 2011
In a review of Weigel's new book on John Paul II, Bernard Prusak notes the...

February 2011

February 02, 2011
I've always been a fan of Al Jazeera. It is a force for change in...

December 2010

December 09, 2010
As we all know, the Church categorically rejects the use of nuclear weapons in war....

September 2010

September 02, 2010
The self-defense sketch by Monty Python is so good, so funny, because of its apparent...

August 2010

August 12, 2010
On the domestic front, I've been pretty happy with the Obama administration. It's impressive that...

June 2010

June 28, 2010
R.I.P http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxWfawiufK0&feature=player_embedded#!
June 14, 2010
In yet another example of how Israel is somehow exempt from the moral law, Senator...
June 04, 2010
Consider this a follow-up to yesterday's post, about how comfortable the American right is with...
June 03, 2010
In my opinion, what runs through that hodge-podge of peculiar and inconsistent beliefs that characterizes...
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