by Brian Roewe, NCR At least one U.S. parish will pass on "serving those who serve" this weekend. In a letter dated Wednesday, Fr. Timothy Taugher, pastor of St. Francis of Assisi Church in Binghampton, N.Y., alerted his bishop that the parish would not participate in the bishops' conference-approved collection this weekend for the U.S. Archdiocese … Continue reading MILITARISM: Military Archdiocese collection muddies nonviolence message, detractors say
REFLECTION: Catholics Against Militarism
by Ellen Finnigan I’ve been thinking about the differences between motion and action and inertia. Things of or in motion: water moving through the Yucatan Straight, a barge carrying oil down the Mississippi to a refinery in Texas, a squid migrating across the Gulf of Mexico, logs being driven down a river like a herd … Continue reading REFLECTION: Catholics Against Militarism