Category: Church

The Catholic Church in Cambodia.

Trump’s threats–War Crimes

President Donald Trump threatens that “a whole civilization will die tonight” unless Iran strikes a deal with the United States by 8 p.m. Eastern on April 7.

The National Catholic Reporter quotes Leo XIV as calling the threats “truly unacceptable” and said that such attacks would violate international law. In some of his strongest comments yet against the war, Leo urged Americans and others to demand that political leaders reject war and work for peace.

“Today as we all know there was this threat against all the people of Iran. This is truly unacceptable,” Leo said.

NCR reported further that “theologians, priests, academics, authors, media personalities, bishops and others took to social media platforms April 7 to warn that military strikes on civilian targets and infrastructure in Iran would constitute grave evils and violate the Catholic Church’s just war tradition.”

This is not primarily a matter of politics but of morality, of right and wrong, of sin and evil.

No Kings Day Demonstration

There were all sorts of viewpoints and themes displayed at the Louisville No Kings Day demonstration yesterday. It was good to see many people expressing religious concerns.

Usually there is a group of us priests at these rallies but this time only me and John Burke and another priest were at the Frankfort Avenue site. The others were downtown at the larger rally.

No Kings Day Demonstration

Louisville organized two large demonstrations today, one near Nazareth Home where I live. They were well attended! Super!

A group of us priests participate in these demonstrations. Today three of us were at the Frankfort Avenue rally and the others went to the larger rally downtown. Here John Burke and I finally meet up after looking for each other in the crowd.

[More photos to come]