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My statement before the judge
Posted on Jan 22, 2008 08:58am CST.| On the Road to Peace by John Dear S.J. | Tuesday, January 22, 2008 |
| Vol. 2, No. 20 |
It’s a powerful experience to stand before a judge and be sentenced to jail for saying no to war, injustice and nuclear weapons, something I highly recommend for all followers of the nonviolent Jesus. It really helps clarify one’s discipleship, one’s citizenship in God’s reign of peace, one’s faith, hope and love. In these days of war, genocide, nuclear weapons, poverty, executions, abortion, torture, global warming, and violence of every description, it’s a grace to be in trouble with the empire for practicing nonviolence, for daring to offer a word of peace, for serving the God of peace.
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Helpful books for faith development
Posted on Jan 22, 2008 13:27pm CST.| NCR Book Club |
Reviewed by RICH HEFFERN
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KEEPING THE COVENANT: TAKING PARISH TO THE NEXT LEVEL By Thomas P. Sweetser Crossroad, 268 pages, $19.95 |
The author of seven books on parish life, Fr. Thomas Sweetser is a familiar name to those involved in parish renewal. In his new book, Keeping the Covenant, Fr. Sweetser offers a practical workbook that deals with fundamental issues as well as specific challenges different churches face.
“Why have a parish at all?” asks Fr. Sweetser. “Why not enter into a covenant with God on your own and leave it at that? The parish is such a hassle; so much work and so little to show for it.”
A Catholic conscience against the war
Posted on Jan 22, 2008 13:36pm CST.| NCR Book Club |
Reviewed by TOM ROBERTS
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A STUPID, UNJUST AND CRIMINAL WAR: 2001-2007 By Andrew Greeley Orbis Books, 215 pages, $19 |
Fr. Andrew Greeley’s place in history is secure as the priest sociologist whose groundbreaking work brought to the surface truths about the Catholic community that many would have preferred to remain hidden. Against that note of biography, then, it wouldn’t be surprising if his latest book, A Stupid, Unjust and Criminal War: 2001-2007, a collection of his newspaper columns opposing the Iraq war, received limited notice. Fr. Greeley, after all, is not on the circuit these days as a political or foreign policy expert.
He ought to be. In his role as columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, Greeley stands out as that rare, high-profile Catholic voice in the culture who uses the rich traditions of Catholic social justice teach ing and the just-war tradition to call the U.S. action in Iraq into question.
