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O King of All Nations: This is My Song

Posted in Advent, O Antiphons, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on December 22, 2012 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

Draw_Me_The_World_by_stickerstickerO King of all nations, the only joy of every human heart; O Keystone of the mighty arch of humankind, come and save the creature you fashioned from the dust.

In the United States, especially in times of political contestation and in a year when even religious leaders decry specters of threats against “religious liberty,” it can be difficult to think of the coming of Christ as the coming of the “King of all nations.” The king of Iran, the king of Israel, the king of North Korea, and of China, the United States, and Haiti. Because of this truth, the fact that we believe that Christ is indeed the keystone of the “might arch of humankind,” that we need to put down temptations of extreme patriotism, jingoism, and discrimination on all fronts.

The United States is not the greatest nation on earth. All nations have things about which to be proud and things for which to be ashamed. Greatness, at least greatness as conceived by Jesus’s instruction to his disciples to be the least and to serve all, has not been intentionally achieved by any human community on this earth.

Nevertheless, the King of all nations comes. Christ is near. Are we ready to accept that? To accept our interrelatedness with all people on earth? Or will we, especially in the United States, continue to look only at ourselves to the disregard of all others?

In honor of today’s O Antiphon, I want to share the lyrics to one of my favorite songs: This is My Song, set to Sebelius’s famous tune, Finlandia. This is my song today, my prayer for this O Antiphon.

This is my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for lands afar and mine.
This is my home, the country where my heart is;
Here are my hopes, my dreams, my sacred shrine.
But other hearts in other lands are beating,
With hopes and dreams as true and high as mine.

My country’s skies are bluer than the ocean,
And sunlight beams on cloverleaf and pine.
But other lands have sunlight too and clover,
And skies are everywhere as blue as mine.
O hear my song, O God of all the nations,
A song of peace for their land and for mine.

May truth and freedom come to every nation;
May peace abound where strife has raged so long;
That each may seek to love and build together,
A world united, righting every wrong;
A world united in its love for freedom,
Proclaiming peace together in one song.

This is my prayer, O Lord of all earth’s kingdoms:
Thy kingdom come; on earth thy will be done.
Let Christ be lifted up till all shall serve him,
And hearts united learn to live as one.
O hear my prayer, thou God of all the nations;
Myself I give thee, let thy will be done.

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Correcting Oversight: DeWitt’s Reflections on ML King’s Opposition to War and Poverty

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , on January 20, 2012 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

The following essay, written by Stephen DeWitt, OFM, author of the blog AFranciscanAbroad.com, was originally published in the January 18, 2012 issue of HNP Today, the twice-monthly newsletter of the Franciscan of Holy Name Province. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission.

Seasonal Reflection: Being True to King’s Legacy
by Stephen DeWitt, OFM

Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most important, influential, and well-known figures of the 20th century United States. King is rightly famous and celebrated for his contributions to the cvil rights movement in the U.S. and his commitment to nonviolent social protest and activism.

This week, as we do each year, we, as a nation, pause to honor his memory and the ideals to which he dedicated his life. During this time most remembrances focus on his contributions to ending segregation and other manifestations of legalized racism in the United States. Many will read or play his famous “I Have a Dream” speech given during the 1963 Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C. All of this was an important part of King’s life and well worth remembering. Equally important, however, and less well remembered, is King’s opposition to militarism and poverty in the U.S. It was to this struggle that King dedicated the latter years of his life. It  is this aspect of his life, often forgotten in public remembrances of his life, that has the most to teach us in this moment of U.S. history.

King’s opposition to war was rooted in two important principles: his belief in the sacredness of all human life and his belief in an objective moral order. Both of these principles were grounded in his Christian faith and guided his entire life. For King, the sacredness of human life was a consequence of humankind’s creation in the image and likeness of God. Speaking on Christmas Eve, 1967, King said:

“Now, let me say that the next thing we must be concerned about if we are to have peace on earth and good will toward men [sic] is the nonviolent affirmation of the sacredness of all human life. Every man is somebody because he is a child of God. And so when we say ‘Thou shalt not kill,’ we’re really saying that human life is too sacred to be taken on the battlefields of the world.” (A Christmas Sermon on Peace)

This identity as children of God means that all people are related and interdependent in a way that knows no boundaries or divisions. We are all brothers and sisters and when we truly acknowledge this oppression, then exploitation and killing will be impossible.

Harmony with Universal Moral Order
King also believed that the universe was under the spiritual control of God and that God had written certain moral laws into the very fabric of the universe. This meant that moral decision-making was not about what was popular or even pragmatic, but what was most in line with the grain of the universe as God had created it. We live our lives best when we do so in harmony with this universal moral order; when we fail to do so, the results are violence, inequality, and injustice. This danger was particularly acute when one substituted a lesser value, such as materialism and consumerism, for love and devotion to God.

King believed that the existence of violence between human beings and of massive inequality between rich and poor was a sign that the people of the world had forgotten the inherent dignity of all people and had turned against the grain of the universe. This sense of violation was particularly evident in the relationship King saw between poverty and war in the policies of the United States during his lifetime, especially the War in Vietnam, which he publicly opposed during the final years of his life.

Speaking about the War in Vietnam in February of 1967, King called Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society program the third casualty of the War in Vietnam, because the war was taking money that could be spent on the poor and using it for unjust killing and war. King goes on to lament a society that could rigorously evaluate every dollar spent on social welfare, while carelessly throwing billions of dollars at the slaughter of other human beings. For him, this indicated a massive distortion of values and priorities.

In April 1967, King called the War in Vietnam, “a symptom of a far deeper malady within the American spirit…” and called for a radical revolution of values so that the U.S. would “get on the right side of the world revolution” (Beyond Vietnam). As King saw it, the world was in the midst of worldwide revolution of freedom in which the oppressed peoples of the world were rising up to demand their rights as free people. Through its ongoing actions in Vietnam, the U.S. had placed itself on the wrong side of this revolution and was in need of great moral and spiritual revolution to bring itself back in line with the movement of the world.

Parallels Decades Later
Tragically, the radical revolution of values that King called for has not come to pass and his criticisms of war and violence retain their relevance. Even a superficial analysis of the recent misadventures of the United States in Iraq and Afghanistan indicates the truth of this statement. According to some estimates, U.S. actions in these countries have cost more than $1 trillion (National Priorities Project), money that could be used here in the U.S. to alleviate the effects of the ongoing economic recession. As in King’s time, when budgets become tight, it is always social welfare programs that are forced to make sacrifices and not military and defense programs.

Nor would King be content with the massive inequality between rich and poor that continues to exist in the U.S. Speaking in 1956, King lamented the fact that one tenth of one percent of the population controlled nearly 40 percent of the wealth (Paul’s Letter to American Christians). Today, the wealthiest one percent control fully 40 percent of the wealth and earn 25 percent of all income annually (Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1%). King condemned this situation, saying,

“God never intended for one group of people to live in superfluous inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty. God intends for all of his children to have the basic necessities of life, and he has left in this universe “enough and to spare” for that purpose. So I call upon you to bridge the gulf between abject poverty and superfluous wealth. (Paul’s Letter to American Christians)

As long as the rich continue to dominate the poor, King’s critique retains its relevance and serves as a reminder that the U.S. is still in need of a radical reorientation of priorities.

Today, U.S. society remains troubled by the same issues that King spoke out against so eloquently during the final years of his life. Our tragic addiction to violence and war remains as the U.S. continues to spend obscene amounts of money on the military while people struggle to pay their bills. We continue to prioritize the rich and powerful, while leaving the poor and middle class to fend for themselves, despite all rhetoric to the contrary. The bankers and financiers who brought the U.S. and world economy to the brink of collapse are bailed out, while ordinary people are thrown out of their homes, often through dishonest and fraudulent means.

If King were alive today, he would be speaking out against the tragic state of U.S. society and culture. He would be marching with the various Occupy movements calling for accountability and for government programs to help people remain in their homes.

This week, many speak eloquently about the need to honor King’s memory and remember the great things he did for civil rights in this country. If we truly want to honor the memory of Martin Luther King, Jr., however, we will join in the struggle to transform U.S. society and bring about the radical revolution of values that he called for. To do anything less makes a mockery of his life and everything for which he stood.

— Br. Steve, a member of the Province’s Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Directorate, professed his final vows as a Franciscan in August 2011.

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Shane Claiborne and Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , on August 15, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

Well, within two weeks I find myself writing about Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream for the second time. I wrote previously about the social-justice agenda that is prominently featured as part of the mission and business plan of the ice-cream company (see “My Favorite Ice Cream Flavor: Social Justice“). Today I share with you a partnership recently launched between one of Ben and Jerry’s co-founders, Ben Cohen, and the popular Christian activist, Shane Claiborne, best known for the founding of the “Simple Way,” a community described as following a o of evangelical living called “New Monasticism.” Claiborne is popular among young evangelical and other Christians, many of whom have read one of his several books.

Ben and Shane have teamed up to organize an event in Philadelphia the day before the 10th Anniversary of 9/11 to promote nonviolence and peace. Here is an excerpt of Shane writing about the event in The Huffington Post recently:

I am teaming up with Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, and an all-star cast to create a little event to provoke the imagination on the eve of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11. We’ve been calling it “Jesus, Bombs, and Ice Cream.”

It will be a night of reconciliation and of grace.

A victim of 9/11 will share about why she has insisted that more violence will not cure the epidemic of hatred in the world.

A veteran from Iraq will speak about the collision he felt as a Christian trying to follow the nonviolent-enemy-love of Jesus on the cross while carrying a gun.

A welder will tie an AK-47 in a knot, while a muralist paints something beautiful on stage.
We’re going to do a Skype call with Afghan youth working for peace, and hear their dreams for a world free of war and bombs and other ugly things…

Oh, and word on the street is: ice cream will be served.

If I didn’t have commitments previously scheduled for that day, I might find myself among those gathered at this event. I certainly endorse the cause that Claiborne and Cohen have sought to promote: nonviolence and peace in a world that has, as Claiborne notes in his HuffPo piece, lost its imagination and has increasingly resorted to violence. As Christians, it seems that events like this are a good way to gather together and promote a Gospel view of nonviolence in our world. I hope some of you are able to make it!

For more information you can check out the Event Website here (for information and tickets) or the Facebook Event Site here.

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Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Poem ‘Peace’

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , on August 5, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

I’m not entirely sure why I feel compelled to share this short poem by Hopkins other than these days of financial turmoil, violence in the world, political instability in this country and elsewhere seems to evoke a longing for some sort of peace that is more stable, more longstanding than what is offered “piecemeal,” to borrow Hopkins’s descriptor. I hope that you will find this poetic reflection edifying and, as it has for me, lead you to pray for a peace that is substantive and divine. Such peace is not found in the fleeting power reversals and violent victories of human action, but in the surrender of such power and the foregoing of violence that the Gospel calls all humankind to embrace. Indeed that peace is a proper noun (Peace) as Hopkins indicates, and that Peace is Christ.

PEACE

When will you ever, Peace, wild wooddove, shy wings shut,
Your round me roaming end, and under be my boughs?
When, when, Peace, will you, Peace? I’ll not play hypocrite
To own my heart: I yield you do come sometimes; but
That piecemeal peace is poor peace. What pure Peace allows
Alarms of wars, the daunting wars, the death of it?

O surely, reaving Peace, my Lord should leave in lieu
Some good! And so he does leave Patience exquisite,
That plumes to Peace thereafter. And when Peace here does house
He Comes with work to do, he does not come to coo,
He comes to brood and sit.

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NJ Talk and Thomas Merton on the Source of War

Posted in Thomas Merton with tags , , , , , , on July 27, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

Last night and again later this morning I am giving talks in Beach Haven, NJ, on the Franciscan influence in the life and thought of Thomas Merton. I particularly enjoy being reminded of the various insights and nuggets of wisdom that shine through Merton’s work. Sometimes one who spends so much time with a particular thinker or subject can begin to take that person or area of thought for granted. I’m not sure that I do that with Merton, but I do know that what can be “old news” to me can make a lot of difference for a lot of people.

While most people are completely oblivious to the fact that the famous Trappist Monk was technically first a Franciscan even though his dream of becoming a Franciscan Friar was never realized  (He was a member of the Third Order or SFOs, which he joined two months before leaving for the Louisville, KY to become a monk), the ways in which the Franciscan tradition informed and shaped Merton’s outlook are manifold — much more so than one can share in just a few hours, and much, much more so than even I have explored (there remain new and exciting research discoveries!).

One of the most interesting comments in recent decades by a Merton scholar, although made in passing, was that of George Kilcourse in his book on Merton’s Christology. In that text Kilcourse offers the conjecture that it is quite possible that a book on the medieval Franciscan John Duns Scotus that Merton had expressed a strong desire to write in the early 1940s might have ultimately turned out as the famous Seeds of Contemplation (later New Seeds). There is much theological evidence within the text(s) to support such a claim, yet there remains much more that can be done in terms of manuscript study and contextual analysis. (to be continued…)

Meanwhile, speaking of New Seeds of Contemplation, I returned to the text last night to have a little read from one of my favorite books. My attention was drawn to the chapter titled, “The Root of War is Fear.” I find myself returning to this chapter now and then, particularly in times of global conflict and violence. There is much wisdom in Merton’s reflection, some of it seems so commonsensical, yet the human family continues to seem incapable of learning or seeing reality as it truly is. This is some of what Merton has to say:

At the root of all war is fear: not so much the fear men [and women] have of one another as the fear they have of everything. It is not merely that they do not trust one another; they do not trust themselves. If they are not sure when someone else may turn around and kill them, they are still less sure when they may turn around and kill themselves. They cannot trust anything, because they have ceased to believe in God.

It is not only our hatred of others that is dangerous but also and above all our hatred of ourselves: particularly that hatred of ourselves which is too deep and too powerful to be consciously faced. For it is this which makes us see our own evil in others and unable to see it in ourselves.

He goes on for what amounts to be one of the longest chapters in the book (most chapters are only a few pages). The whole chapter is worth reading, as the whole book is indeed worth reading — several times! But I wish to skip ahead to the closing section of the chapter. I think Merton offers us a lot to seriously take to heart about what it is that we pray for when we prayer for “world peace.”

If men [and women] really wanted peace they would sincerely ask God for it and He would give it to them. But why should [God] give the world a peace which it does not really desire? The peace the world pretends to desire is really no peace at all.

To some men [and women] peace merely means the liberty to exploit other people without fear of retaliation or interference. To others peace means the freedom to rob others without interruption. To still others it means the leisure to devour the goods of the earth without being compelled to interrupt their pleasures to feed those whom their greed is starving. And to practically everybody peace simply means the absence of any physical violence that might cast a shadow over lives devoted to the satisfaction of their animal appetites for comfort and pleasure.

Many men [and women] like these have asked God for what they thought was “peace” and wondered why their prayer was not answered. They could not understand that it actually was answered. God left them with what they desired, for their idea of peace was only another form of war. The “cold war” is simply the normal consequence of our corrupt idea of a peace based on a policy of “every man for himself” in ethics, economics and political life. It is absurd to hope for a solid peace based on fictions and illusions!

So instead of loving what you think is peace, love other men [and women] and love God above all. And instead of hating the people you think are warmakers, hate the appetites and disorder in your own soul, which are the causes of war. If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed — but hate these things in yourself, not in another.

There is not much more that one can say after something so wise.

Except, perhaps, “Amen.”

Photo: Merton Legacy Trust

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A Peace Prayer for Norway and the World

Posted in Franciscan Spirituality, Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on July 22, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

This reflection is now available in Daniel P. Horan, OFM’s book Franciscan Spirituality for the 21st Century: Selected Reflections from the Dating God Blog and Other Essays, Volume One (Koinonia Press, 2013).

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Finding Peace in the Eucharistic Prayer

Posted in Solemn Vow Retreat with tags , , , , , , , on July 7, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

Thursday 7 July 2011

While not used all that often, there are alternative Eucharistic prayers in the Roman Missal including settings categorized for Masses with Children and the, all-too-often underused, Masses for Reconciliation.

Given that our whole lives call for reconciliation, the acknowledgement of our individual and collective wrongdoings as well as the striving toward returning to right relationship with ourselves, others and God, it seems that the Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation (options one and two) should or at least could be used more often.

Last night I went to bed thinking about the Second Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation. I have found myself thinking about the various Eucharistic Prayers rather often lately. Perhaps this is because my friar classmate and I will be ordained – God willing – in just a few months. The structure of the prayer, an adaptation of the Jewish table prayers made new and different at the Last Supper, has especially caught my attention.

Our collective prayer of thanksgiving, through the prayer of the priest speaking on behalf of all those gathered (for the priest is the presider and principal celebrant, but the entire Body of Christ is who offers the prayer of the Eucharist, a prayer of thanksgiving), recalls the entirety of salvation history and all for which we are grateful.

The so-called Institution Narrative provides an opportunity for the community to enter into the memoria, the “calling to mind,” what happened that night before Jesus Christ was betrayed. What follows is the entire prayer of the Church, the intercessory offering of our desire to be in communion with God and one another, scattered as we are throughout the world (Lumen Gentium no. 13).

It is the setting of the Second Eucharistic Prayer for Reconciliation that I wish to share today. The words are to infrequently prayed, but the preface which I share with you below offers us much to consider. May we take the time to hear the words of the Eucharistic Preface anew, finding peace and the impetus for justice in the Eucharist we celebrate together.

Father, all powerful and ever living God, we praise and thank you through Jesus Christ our Lord for your presence and action in the world.

In the midst of conflict and division, we know it is you who turn our minds to thoughts of peace.

Your Spirit is at work when understanding puts an end to strife, when hatred is quenched by mercy, and vengeance gives way to forgiveness.

For this we should never cease to thank and praise you.

We join with all the choirs of heaven as they sing forever to your glory…

Each Eucharistic Prayer Preface includes this basic structure, but this particular setting highlights the pneumatology (the focus on the Holy Spirit) in a way that strikes me as particularly relevant for our day. May we indeed find ourselves working to end strife, end hatred with mercy and forgive: then we will be living as Christians, proclaiming with our words and deeds the Kingdom of God.

(FYI: Tomorrow Prince William and Kate Middleton will be less-than two miles away from where I’m staying for the month on retreat. I wonder how chaotic Santa Barbara will be because of their visit).

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A 1961 Letter that Speaks a Little of What I Feel

Posted in Thomas Merton with tags , , , , , , on May 26, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

There are times in my life, and I’m sure in most everybody’s, when I read a book, poem or some other text that seems to put words to something that I’m thinking about or feeling, perhaps even in a way better than I could have. I find this happens all the time when I read Thomas Merton. There are aspects of Merton’s writing and interests and life itself to which I can relate more easily than others: we both entered religious life at a young age, we both have a strong connection to the Francsican tradition, we both are deeply influenced by the anthropological and Christological thought of an obscure medieval theologian named Scotus, we both find ourselves compelled to write, among other things.

One thing that has become clear to me in recent months is that I feel more and more compelled to highlight the nonviolent tradition that stands at the core of Christian living, particularly from the vantage point of the Franciscan movement’s prophetic reminder of this truth. While talking with a friend recently, it occurred to me that this increasing passion for raising questions about violence, war and peace in our world really began to ratchet up in January after the Tucson shooting that left Rep. Giffords injured. I started to write more explicitly about violence and Christian discipleship in places like this blog (For example, see: “On Baptism and Violence: A Sad Reflection,” “Our Call Amid Violence: Be A Light to the Nations,” and “The Violent Power of Words: A Franciscan Response.“).

That has continued through the subsequent months and remains something that occupies much of my thought, prayer, reading and writing. I can’t quite explain why I feel so concerned about this issue, but it is something that will not leave me.

As I work on editing the unpublished correspondence of Thomas Merton and Naomi Burton Stone for publication, I am frequently consulting Merton’s other correspondence to see what he was saying to others at the same time. This has really allowed me to gain a fuller picture of Merton’s thought and interests, especially during the last decade of his life. While reading a letter Merton wrote to James Laughlin, the publisher of New Directions Books, on August 18, 1961, I found myself nodding along to Merton’s words as he also struggled to express his passion for addressing violence, war and injustice in the world — something that was regularly discouraged or even censored by his religious community.

I share his words with you today for two reasons. First, I wish to share a little of how I feel about these matters and I think Merton’s own reflection accurately gives voice to some of those feelings. Second, I hope that Merton’s own desire to speak out in a society uninterested in hearing these critiques might inspire you to do likewise. Here is an excerpt:

Personally I am more and more concerned about the question of peace and war. I am appalled by the way everyone simply sits around and acts as though everything were normal. It seems to me that I have an enormous responsibility myself, since I am read by a lot of people, and yet I don’t know what to begin to say and then I am as though bound and gagged by the censors, who though not maliciously reactionary are just obtuse and slow. this feeling of frustration is terrible. Yet what can one say? If I go around shouting “abolish war” it will be meaningless. Yet at least some one has to say that. I am in no position to plan a book about it. There is no purpose to a silly book of editorial-like platitudes. Some more poems like Auschwitz, maybe. But the thing is to be heard. And everything is perfectly soundproof and thought proof. We are all doped right up to the eyes. And words have become useless, no matter how true they may be. But when it comes to action, then I am more helpless than anyone: except within my own very limited sphere of prayer, with which I have no quarrel at all. That is perhaps the last great power that can do anything: and the less said about it the better. Not only prayer but holiness, which I don’t have. We are all wound up in lies and illusions and as soon as we begin to think or talk the machinery of falsity operates automatically. The worst of all is not to know this, and apparently a lot of people don’t.

Photo: yimcatholic.blogspot.com

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Thomas Merton on Peace and Nonviolence

Posted in Thomas Merton, Uncategorized with tags , , , on May 14, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

Thomas Merton wrote a monograph on war and peace that he never saw published. In 2004 it was finally published, edited by the well-known Merton bibliographer Patricia Burton. I think that his words of wisdom ring true today as surely as they did when he penned them many decades ago. While these words were written to express increasing concern about how Christians are to respond to the nuclear crisis of the day, perhaps there is some wisdom to be gleaned for our own time.

Yet never was opposition to war more urgent and more necessary than now. Never was religious protest so badly needed. Embarrassed silence, despondent passivity, or crusading beligerence seem to be the most widespread “Christian” response to the H-bomb. True, there has been some theological and ethical debate. This debate has been characterized above all by a seemingly inordinate hesitation to characterize the uninhibited use of nuclear weapons as immoral. Of course the bomb has been condemned without equivocation by the “peace churches” (Quakers, Mennonites, etc.) But the general tendency of Protestant and Catholic theologians has been to reconsile nuclear war with the traditional “just war” theory.

In other words the discussion has not been so much a protest against nuclear war, still less a positive search for peaceful solutions to the problem of nuclear dterrence and ever increasing Cold War obsessions, but rather an attempt to justify, at least under some limited form, this new kind of war which is tacitly recognized as an imminent possibility. In other words, theological thought has tended more and more to accept nuclear war, considering a lesser evil than Communist domination, and looking for some practicable way to make use of the lesser evil in order to avoid the greater.

To read the full text check out Peace in the Post-Christian Era (Orbis, 2004).

Photo: Thomas Merton Center, Bellarmine University

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Dear Maureen Dowd: Yes, We’re ‘Fools and Knaves’ For God

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , , , , on May 7, 2011 by Daniel P. Horan, OFM

This reflection is now available in Daniel P. Horan, OFM’s book Franciscan Spirituality for the 21st Century: Selected Reflections from the Dating God Blog and Other Essays, Volume One (Koinonia Press, 2013).

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