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Liberation Theology Cardinal Claudio Hummes A member of the Order of Friars Minor and an outspoken proponent of social justice , “A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor,” he said. “The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity,” Cardinal Claudio Hummes said. “Today more than ever, the church faces this challenge. In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace. Solidarity corrects injustices, reestablishes the fundamental rights of persons and of nations, overcomes poverty and even resists the revolt that injustice provokes, eliminating the violence that is born with revolt and constructing peace.” (Cardinal Claudio Hummes) Photograph by Ricardo Stuckert/PR, CC BY 3.0 BR , via Wikimedia Commons About A member of the Order of Friars Minor and an outspoken proponent of social justice , “A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor,” he said. “The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity,” Cardinal Claudio Hummes said. “Today more than ever, the church faces this challenge. In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace. Solidarity corrects injustices, reestablishes the fundamental rights of persons and of nations, overcomes poverty and even resists the revolt that injustice provokes, eliminating the violence that is born with revolt and constructing peace.” (Cardinal Claudio Hummes) Liberation Theology applied to Catholic Schools Read Article Parochial Schools & Immigrants by William Horan Watch Video William Horan - Oxford Symposium March 2021 Watch Video William Horan - Vatican II and Catholic Education Institute for Research, Education, and Scholarship July 2021 Read Article The crisis behind the departure crisis by Kevin and Marilyn Ryan William Horan's Response Read Article Admission Impossible: Preferential Options at Catholic Colleges by Gerald J. Beyer William Horan's Response Read Article Preparing our Children for the Coming of Jesus by Kathy Mears William Horan's Response

Liberation Theology Cardinal Claudio Hummes A member of the Order of Friars Minor and an outspoken proponent of social justice , “A servant church must have as its priority solidarity with the poor,” he said. “The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity,” Cardinal Claudio Hummes said. “Today more than ever, the church faces this challenge. In fact, effective solidarity with the poor, both individual persons and entire nations, is indispensable for the construction of peace. Solidarity corrects injustices, reestablishes the fundamental rights of persons and of nations, overcomes poverty and even resists the revolt that injustice provokes, eliminating the violence that is born with revolt and constructing peace.” (Cardinal Claudio Hummes) Photograph by Ricardo Stuckert/PR, CC BY 3.0 BR , via Wikimedia Commons Read Article Pope to name liberation theology ally to key Vatican post, report says By John L. Allen Jr Liberation Theology applied to Catholic Schools Read Article Parochial Schools & Immigrants by William Horan Watch Video William Horan - Vatican II and Catholic Education Institute for Research, Education & Scholarship, July 2021 Watch Video William Horan - Oxford Symposium March 2021 View Poster Poster Designed to Stimulate Discussion - Catholic Schools by William Horan View Poster Poster Designed to Stimulate Discussion - Bums by William Horan The crisis behind the departure crisis by Kevin and Marilyn Ryan William Horan's Response Read Article Admission impossible: Preferential options at Catholic colleges. by Gerald J. Beyer William Horan's Response Preparing our Children for the Coming of Jesus by Kathy Mears William Horan's Response

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Non-Violence Tom Cornell American journalist and a peace activist against the Vietnam War and the Iraq War. He was an associate editor of the Catholic Worker and a deacon in the Catholic Church. Read Article The Future of Christian Nonviolence Is just war theory meaningless? What about defending the innocent? By Tom Cornell Photo Source: https://www.plough.com/en/authors/c/tom-cornell Photo Source: https://incommunion.org/2022/01/27/the-remarkable-life-and-witness-of-jim-forest/ Jim Forest American writer, Orthodox Christian lay theologian , educator, and peace activist . “Both Dorothy and Merton were firm believers in patient efforts simply to communicate to others what the Gospel is all about, what the Church teaches, and the value of paying attention to saints who in various ways set a timely example. This is not so much carrying out what are sometimes called “prophetic actions” as engaging in ordinary acts of communication. While being patient and even supportive of me and others who engaged in such dramatic acts of civil disobedience as breaking into draft offices and burning draft files, neither Dorothy nor Merton recommended such tactics as a method of protest.” (Jim Forest at the Catholic Peace Fellowship Conference in South Bend, Indiana, on 24 March 2007) William Horan Founding member of Jones & Horan Peace Team, advocate for World Peace “In the Pax Christi Vow of Nonviolence, there is a fatal flaw. No Christian can carry out in his life, the love and example of Jesus “by actively resisting evil”. Our Lord did not set the example of “actively resisting evil”. Rather, He tolerated evil to the point of being “led like a Lamb to the slaughter”. Yet, He smothered evil with good by an assault on the flank. The flank assault, as any good soldier knows, is an attempt to strike the enemy at an advantageous angle – not directly. Such an angle, our Lord has demonstrated, is most effective in dealing with the powers of evil. This angle implies not “actively resisting evil”, even though that resistance may be nonviolent. Rather, It suggests the gracious embrace of love on the side. Concretely, this means that Christians should get rid of the tactics of blocking entrances to missile bases or otherwise harassing the Pentagon. On the side however, we should be supporting the work of Arun Gandhi for he has found that Christlike angle from which to assault the evil of war.” (William Horan 2008) Watch Video William Horan on Non-Violence May 2022 Photograph courtesy of Patty Jones Photograph by Courtney St. Gelais Patty Jones Co-Founding Member of Jones & Horan Peace Team, Advocate for World Peace Watch Video Discussing a Non-Violent Response to the War In Ukraine Patty Jones featured on Merton Thursdays, May 2022 Thomas Merton American Trappist monk, writer, theologian, mystic , poet, social activist and scholar of comparative religion . “Most activists do not go in for naked violence yet, but they will. In other words, there are ways and means to force people to go in a certain direction. That is okay, that is politics, you might say. If you are a politician you need to know about it and deal with it, but we have to stay out of it.” (Thomas Merton – Thomas Merton in Alaska – page 108) “Non-violence has become all fouled-up and is turning into a sort of semi-violence.” (Thomas Merton – Thomas Merton in Alaska– page109) Photograph link http://www.mertoncenter.org/Poetry/griffin.jpg Photograph by Jean Song/ DC distributed under a CC-BY 2.0 license . Arun Ghandi Grandson of Mahatma Ghandi Arun Gandhi said: “You can quote me as saying Mahatma Gandhi would disagree with the Plowshares actions because they employ tactics of secrecy and destruction of property. I also think locking up the most courageous and devoted peace leaders for long prison terms is a way of weakening the peace movement. Those leaders could do much more for peace outside of jail than in it.” ( The Jesus Journal – Summer 1995 – No. 77 – page 44 ) “Common people who are not directly involved in social debates and political conflicts have their lives to live, they become angry at those who are disturbing their lives or damaging property that has to be repaired using public funds. Thus the average person, whose support is often necessary for lasting success, is alienated. Rather than leading to a resolution, they escalate the conflict and create more deeply entrenched opponents.” (Legacy of Love by Arun Gandhi – page 132) Mahatma Ghandi Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule . “No secret organization, however big, could do any good. Secrecy aims at building a wall of protection around you. Ahimsa disdains all such protection. It functions in the open in the face of odds, the heaviest conceivable. We have to organize for action a vast people that have been crushed under the heel of unspeakable tyranny for centuries. They cannot be organized by other than open, truthful means. I have grown up from youth to seventy-six years in abhorrence of secrecy. There must be no watering down of the ideal.” (Mahatma Gandhi – quoted by Thomas Merton in his book: Gandhi on Non-Violence – page 40) Photograph by Elliot & Fry distributed under a CC-BY 2.0 license . Photograph by Mahler distributed under a CC-BY 2.0 license . John Dear American Catholic priest, peace activist, lecturer, and author of 35 books on peace and nonviolence. Regarding St. Thereses’s Little Way of Nonviolence, John Dear said: “Given our culture of violence and the world’s wars, I prefer to translate Thérèse’s spirituality as “the little way of nonviolence.” Through these small acts of great love, we root out every trace of violence within us, allow God to disarm our hearts, and share in God’s disarmament of the world. As more and more people practice this little way of nonviolence, love becomes contagious, wars end, and weapons are dismantled. As we organize our nonviolent love into direct public action, as Dorothy Day did, we can end nuclear air raid drills–and someday, nuclear weapons themselves. This little way of nonviolence is revolutionary for it demands steadfast inner determination to confront the selfishness and violence within us, to open our hearts to be consumed by God’s love, and to overwhelm those we do not like with good deeds, kindness, and loving service. Her example of taking the tough Sister St. Peter around in her wheelchair, preparing her food, and responding to her snappy remarks with a pleasant smile models interpersonal nonviolence for us.” (John Dear- National Catholic Reporter– Sept 29, 2009)