Lisa
Sowle Cahill writes that Church teaching about the use of force is
paradoxical. “Just peace” – – not just
war should be the distinguishing mark and calling of the global Catholic
Church.
“Christian social ethics has long contended with the problem
of how to restrain violence. There is certainly no questioning Jesus’ own
nonviolent example. Positively, Jesus gospel of compassion, inclusion,
forgiveness, reconciliation, and love of God and neighbor is about creating and
expanding communities of love, justice, and solidarity. There is surely
something paradoxical if not self-contradictory about Christians, starting with
Augustine (and his teacher Ambrose), who justify killing in the name of love
and the gospel.
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