President Bush’s Ambassador to the Holy See has asked Michael Novak to develop even further his theological theory of justification for preventive war to support Bush. Novak will present his ideas in February at a conference on the just war organized by the Ambadssador. In the past several months Novak, along with fellow neo-conservative writers… continue reading
Catholic Writers Recruited to Support Bush War on Iraq: Michael Novak Hired to Undermine Pope John Paul II’s Position
February 1, 2003 by
Who Gets Organ Transplants? Undocumented Give More than They Receive
February 1, 2003 by
Dr. McColloster is a volunteer physician at Casa Juan Diego. G. was dropped off at Casa Juan Diego in July. She had been living under an overpass with her boyfriend but was unable to tolerate the Houston heat. Her eyes were brightly jaundiced and her abdomen was swollen like a woman one week overdue. She… continue reading
American Catholics and the Death Penalty
October 1, 2002 by
The following is based on Jim Megivern’s presentation on April 20, 2002, at a program on Catholicism and the Death Penalty at the University of Dallas, part of a seminar on Religion and Public Life. The editors also participated in that seminar. Liberal use of death as the penalty for a wide variety of crimes… continue reading
The Seductive Power of Using Violence: Innocent Victims Killed in Afghanistan
April 1, 2002 by
John is a scientist at a local oil company. He coordinates Casa Juan Diego’s medical clinic at Casa Maria. Once again the U. S. finds itself trying to destroy evil with violence, this time by attacking Afghanistan. While the stated target is Osama Bin Laden and the Taliban, innocent civilians have become the victims. These… continue reading
Challenge of Peace in the Holy Land: Jesus must Weep over Jerusalem
April 1, 2002 by
Brother Mark Gruenke is one of the founding members of the holy hour for peace held at the Rice University Catholic Student Center each Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. My pilgrimage to the Holy Land has helped me to realize how much my own spirituality is sacramental and incarnational. One of the things that most… continue reading
Catholic Peace Fellowship Revived
February 1, 2002 by
Long before the horror of September 11, plans for the revitalization of the Catholic Peace Fellowship, along with a meeting scheduled for November 11, were in process, led by original CPF founders Jim Forrest and Tom Cornell. Exactly two months after terrorist attacks on New York and Washington rallied a stunned and outraged country to… continue reading
A Call to Change America: How would Dorothy Day Respond to an Attack such as September 11?
February 1, 2002 by
The tragedy of September 11 has given us the opportunity to re-evaluate how we live and how we relate to other countries. We don’t want this to be a lost opportunity. Those who take the spiritual life seriously have to ask the question, not only why did this happen, but what is God asking of… continue reading
Meeting the Enemy of September 11, 2001: A Chestertonian Perspective
December 1, 2001 by
Dale Ahlquist is President of the American Chesterton Society and a recent convert to Catholicism. He invited Mark and Louise to speak on the economics of Distributism at the Chesterton Conference in June 2001. On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, my son, Adrian Chesterton Ahlquist, had his fifth birthday. That meant a party with a birthday… continue reading
Augustine and War: Reflections on September 11, 2001
December 1, 2001 by
Carter Aiken is a doctoral student in theology at the University of Notre Dame. “The actions of sinners … cannot obstruct the ‘great works of God, carefully designed to fulfill all his decisions’”(de civ, XIV, 27). If the above statement from de civitate dei is true, then we must fundamentally re-think the relationship between ourselves and… continue reading
After September 11, 2001: What Should We, as Catholics, Do? Patriotism and Pacifism
November 1, 2001 by
Fr. Baxter is a professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Catholic Worker. In 1917, Senator Hiram Johnson said that “the first casualty when war comes is truth.” Given that the attacks last week on New York and Washington have been widely described as acts of war, and seem to have… continue reading
