War and the arms trade that feeds it cannot make life for the people on our small planet more just or more secure. It is not simply that crimes are committed by all sides in every war. War itself is the crime says Paul Oestreicher “Unless we change, unless the Church moves to the margins Read more
A new book has revealed how the Red Cross and the Vatican helped thousands of Nazis including men like Adolf Eichmann and Josef Mengele to escape justice after the war. In “Nazis On The Run: How Hitler’s Henchmen Fled Europe” Gerald Steinacher, a research fellow from Harvard University, sheds light on just how thousands of Read more
In the context of Anzac Day the Cross is a symbol not of triumph but the pity of war. “There is no honour or glory in war. There’s just the smell of blood, the smell of cordite in the nose. Fear, sweat, noise,” said John Kingi, one of nine soldiers from Victor 3 Company One Platoon who Read more
Pope Benedict admitted to asking himself why so many children had to suffer in natural disasters such as the Japanese earthquake. The admission came on a television programme the pontiff participated in. Pope Benedict went on to say “We don’t have the answers, but we know that Jesus suffered as innocent children suffer.” The pope’s comments on Read more
Tripoli’s Roman Catholic bishop, Giovanni Martinelli along with other Christian leaders has called on the international community not to give arms to the Libyan rebels. “The risk of providing weapons to rebels in Benghazi is a way of not ending the war, [but] rather a way to lengthening it.” “We hope that in our small Read more
World War II was the last war the United States fought with a formal declaration of war. As background to this, in his book “The Next Decade,” George Friedman spends a good deal of time considering the relation of the American Empire to the American Republic and the threat the empire poses to the republic. Read more
During his regular Angelus audience on Sunday, March 20, Pope Benedict XVI spoke of his “great apprehension” about military action in Libya and called on military and political leaders to protect civilians caught up in the conflict. “I am now following the latest events with great apprehension”, he asserted. “I pray for those who are Read more