Shouldn’t we be wondering how it is that we go on arming ourselves to deliver death to unseen enemies while our society is dying in other ways at our own hands as a result?
And now our so-called representatives and senators tell us that those social things are too expensive for them to allow while they have pumped the military budget up and up, over and over, for all the years of our lives?
Sr. Joan Chittister, OSB, commenting on Sante Fe Archbishop John Wester’s pastoral letter calling for the abolition of all nuclear weapons.