“There is one winner, only one winner, in war. The winner is war itself. Not truth, not justice, not liberty, not morality. These are the vanquished.”
-Thomas Merton
HT: Robert Ellsberg
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The Good Shepherd’s commitments to us
Photo (by me) from the Basilica of Sts. Cosmos and Damian, Roma HT to John Predmore SJ for the following: I would like to talk about God’s ...
I read an interview with a combat veteran of the Gulf War who witnessed and participated in unimaginable killing. One day after a successful battle they began joyriding in the enemy's tanks. He discovered they were manufactured in the U.S. and sold to the enemy. He is very patriotic - very promilitary and very antiwar - the war he says, is a racket. I wonder how he reconciles?
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