Fourteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The Contradictory Idea of Trying to Stay Put
Is 66:10-14cPs 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20Gal 6:14-18Lk 10:1-12, 17-20 I’m a person who likes...
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Ethicists Without Borders Statement on Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine
It is Ash Wednesday, and Pope Francis has called for a global day of fasting for peace in Ukraine....
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Statement by Ethicists in the Wake of the January 3rd and 8th Military Actions between the United States and Iran
(Earlier this month, the United States and Iran appeared to be on the brink of war. Some say that...
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An Ethical “No” to a US Military First Strike on North Korea
“We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Martin Luther King, Jr. made this...
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Steve Bannon’s Cudgel Christianity
Over the last few weeks, much has been made about the Trump Administration’s White House...
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Capitalism and War: Are They Linked?
Returning again to his evangelizing style of conversational encounter, earlier this week Pope...
Read MoreHiroshima and the Transfiguration of Christ
Each year, on August 6, I’m reminded of the strange convergence. In the liturgical calendar, August 6th is the Feast of the Transfiguration, where Jesus goes up Mt. Tabor with Peter, James, and John, and they see the...
Read MoreThe Promotion of Peace
The Promotion of Peace (Chapter 11 of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church) It is worth noting that the chapter in the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church that addresses issues of war and peace is...
Read MoreUnderestimating Social Media
One has only to look at the varying roles that Facebook and Twitter played in the protests that spread across Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya to recognize the power of social media sites. The rioters in Britain also used these...
Read MoreOn the Vandenberg Air Force Base Nuclear Ethics & Nuclear War Course
According to the Vatican II document, Gaudium et spes: “With these truths in mind, this most holy synod makes its own the condemnations of total wars already pronounced by recent popes, and issues the following declaration: Any...
Read MoreWe Had to Kill Bin Laden?
Many of the articles, reflections, or posts that I have read on the killing of Osama bin Laden lament the situation, expressing a desire for some other solution and, simultaneously, recognizing that no other way seemed...
Read MoreLibya: Process = Justice?
Are Bush and Obama both unjust? Over at dotCommonweal, Peter Nixon notes that Obama makes “Bush’s pace” look “positively dilatory,” since at least in the lead-up to the Iraq war, there was a...
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