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The Lenten journey of gospel nonviolence (Part 3)

  On the Road to Peace by John Dear S.J.    Tuesday, February 19, 2008  
       Vol. 2, No. 24  

"Can you be a good Catholic and support war?" That was the question put to me last week by CNN's anchorwoman Soledad O'Brien in front of a thousand people at Marquette University's annual "Faith Doing Justice" Mission Week. What could I say? I gave the only honest answer I could think of: "No."