- Prayers for Peace and Suggested Responses
- Reflections after 9/11
- Messages from CLCs Around the World on 9/11
With the US invasion of Iraq, we are called to an even deeper response in faith to this crises.
NEW!US-CLC
Members' Response to the War in Iraq
Stations of the Cross for Peace
Prayer
for World Peace by Joan D. Chittister, OSB
Ground Zero: Love Triumphs
All by Patrick Malone, SJ
Alternative
to Invasion, an article from Sojourners Magazine
US
Bishop's Pastoral Messages after 9/11 and on War in
Iraq
Pax Christi USA
NorthWest
CLC's Prayer Service
Sojourners
— Feed the People
Prayer
Partners
Bombing
with Food
Ground
Zero: Love Triumphs All by Patrick Malone, SJ
This 32-page booklet recalls
Father Malone's experiences ministering to the rescue workers at the World Trade
Center site from January 1 - January 19, 2002.
"I have learned reluctantly,
that to invite others to grieve is one of the most joyous, sensual, and spiritual
gifts we can pass on." Fr. Malone
Available
from Ligouri Publications, $1.95
1-800-325-9521,
www.ligouri.org,
www.catholicbooksonline.com
NCCB Statement on War with Iraq - March 19, 2003
Iraq: the Way to Peace - Resources for Dioceses and Parishes
Living With Faith and Hope After September 11
"In these brief reflections, we seek to articulate traditional Catholic teaching as a guide for our people and nation, offering a moral framework, rather than a series of specific judgements on rapidly changing events." Pastoral Message at NCCB site. Published November 14, 2001
Confronting the War in Iraq! Resources - Spring 2003
Toward a New Paradigm of Peacemaking: A Call to Reflection and Action - Pentecost 2002
Pax
Christi USA on the Crisis in Israel/Palestine
Pax
Christi USA Responds to Terrorism
- Fall 2001
NorthWest CLC's Prayer Service
A suggestion originally sent by Larry Gooley, SJ, Ecclesial Assistant to the NorthWest Region and National Ecclesial Assistant. It was then forwarded to all the US CLC Regions as well as other National CLCs around the world by Dorothy Zambito, NCLC President as a suggestion for all. While the date of October 28 has passed, this prayer service can be used at any time as a prayerful reflection for peace. Prayer Service
You can send a letter to President Bush calling for an end to bombing, for humanitarian assistance and respect for the right of Muslims by clicking on Sojourners site: http://www.sojo.net/haltthebombing/ or using the following contact information:
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Washington, D.C. 20500
Phone: 202-456-1414 (comment line)
Fax: 202-465-2461
E-mail: president@whitehouse.gov
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C. 20520
Phone: 202-647-6575
Fax: 202-647-7120
E-mail: secretary@state.gov
Several times I've heard of an immediate and long-term need for not only professional counselors, but also for "people of faith" to be avialable to help people cope with the events of yesterday.
Are we equipped to at least be prayer partners?
A thought for an action to occur over the next several months.
PAX, oremus ....
From Bob Joerger, Mid-Atlantic Region
The following letter was in Dwight Bitikofer's column in the Kirkwood-Webster Times and is certainly "food for thought" It is credited to one Kent Madin submitted by Joan Felling, Missouri Region.
A military response particularly an attack on Afghanistan, is exactly what the terrorists want. It will strengthen and swell their small but fanatical ranks.
Instead, bomb Afghanistan with butter, with rice, bread clothing and medicine. It will cost less than conventional arms, poses no threat of U.S. casualties and just might get the populace thinking that maybe the Taliban doesn't have the answers. After three years of drought and with starvation looming let's offer the Afghani people the vision of a new future. One that includes full stomachs.
Bomb them with information. Vido players and cassettes of world leaders, partiularly Islamic leaders, condemning terrorism. Carpet the country with magazines and newspapers showing the horror of terrorism committed by their "guest." Blitz them with laptop computers and DVD players filled with a perspective that is denied them by their government. Saturation bombing with hope will mean that some of it gets through. Send so much that the Taliban can't collect and hide it all.
The Taliban is telling its people to prepare for Jihad. Instead, let's give the Afghani people their first good meal in years. Seeing your family fully fed and the prospect of stability in terms of food and a future is a powerful deterrent to martyrdom. All we ask in return is that they, a a people agree to enter the civilized world. That includes handing over terrorists in their midst.
In responding to terrorism we need to do something different. Something unexpected...something that addresses the root of the problem. We need to take away the well of despair, ignorance and brutality from which Osama bin Ladens of the world water their gardens of terror.
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