The Christian appraisal of armed hostility is sometime reduced to a set of doctrinal criteria purporting to sum up the morally significant aspects of war. An alternative and equally hallowed approach is the appeal to a pervasive human sinfulness so toxic as irremediably to infect the structure of human existence with bloodshed and killing. But… continue reading
Christ Our Peace, Unifier of the World: A Note on the Invariable Calamity of War – War is not Normative
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Pope John Paul II calls War a Defeat for Humanity: Neoconservative Iraq Just War Theories Rejected
August 1, 2003 by
The most consistent and frequent promoter of peace and human rights for the last two decades has been Pope John Paul II. From Iraqi War I to Iraqi War II, he has echoed the voice of Paul VI, crying out before the United Nations in 1965: War No More, War Never Again! John Paul II… continue reading
Is Casa Juan Diego a Smuggling Operation? No, Just the Works of Mercy for Immigrants and Refugees
August 1, 2003 by
With the discovery of the deceased who had suffocated in a trailer truck jammed with living and the dead, local reporters besieged Casa Juan Diego with questions. They wanted to know-and the public was demanding to know-about the life of the immigrants. Since Casa Juan Diego provides hospitality to 125 to 150 each night, they… continue reading
The Immorality of Conscription, the Military Draft: the Majority cannot Determine Morality
June 1, 2003 by
Fr. Hugo published a seven-page article entitled “The Immorality of Conscription” in the November 1944 issue of The Catholic Worker. According to Patrick Coy, the article was so popular and the demand for it ran so high, that less than six months later the CW included it again, this time as a supplement to the… continue reading
From a Bishop of the Early Church on Nonviolence: Act as Lambs Rather than Wolves
June 1, 2003 by
That they may now understand that this is a new kind of warfare and not the usual custom of joining in battle, when he sent them forth with nothing He said: “And so, marching on, show forth the meekness of lambs, although you are to go to wolves. . . for so will I best… continue reading
The Power of Fritz Eichenberg Woodcuts with Dorothy Day Text in The Catholic Worker: The Peaceable Kingdom
June 1, 2003 by
Fr. Daprile, a priest from the Diocese of Youngstown, Ohio, has just sent us a copy of his dissertation at Duquesne University. It is entitled The Power of the Visual Image and its Correlation to Text: The Graphic Illustrations of Fritz Eichenberg and the Texts of Dorothy Day as found in The Catholic Worker 1949-1980…. continue reading
Dorothy Day on Love, Sexuality, Marriage and Pedophilia
April 1, 2003 by
I have just read a review of the Kinsey report, which appeared in the spring number of Politics. . .. Here are some of the things I was thinking about the book. In the first place, I remembered how I came across Havelock Ellis’s Sexual Pathology at the age of seventeen, in the home of a… continue reading
Seminarian Discovers Dorothy Day
April 1, 2003 by
Jose Rueda is a graduate from the Angelicum in Rome and Texas Tech University, and a seminarian in Denver who spent a month this winter as a Catholic Worker in Houston. He grew up in Spain and Mexico, lived in Ireland, and speaks English with a charming Irish accent. My first contact with the life… 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
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
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
