Thank you to a reader, Tim, for sending this article of interest about the history of Catholicism in Japan and the trauma of the bomb:
Pope in Japan
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Category Archives: Military Culture (of Death)
Excellent Overview
Paul Elie, writing for The New Yorker, provides an excellent overview of the Plowshares movement, and places the actions of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 within the context of not only this movement but the wider evolution of the Church’s thinking and teaching on nuclear weapons. Check it out!
Fulton Sheen & William Buckley on Vietnam
Rewriting History in Video Games
https://www.newsweek.com/call-duty-modern-warfare-highway-death-russia-gulf-war-1468207
by Andrew Whalen, published in Newsweek, October 28, 2019
‘CALL OF DUTY: MODERN WARFARE’ REWRITES THE HIGHWAY OF DEATH AS A RUSSIAN ATTACK, RATHER THAN AMERICAN
Calling Out MSM
“Dear Mainstream News Media –
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I’m talking to you, New York Times, Washington Post, MSNBC, CNN, and all your upstanding, highly professional conglomerate cohorts.
Thank you one and all very, very much for not covering the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7.”
Clerical Conversations
Here’s a podcast I just found in which Cardinal Dolan is interviewed about “Militarism, the Military Culture, and Catholicism.” Produced by True Restoration. I haven’t listened to it yet, but it sure looks good!
Ammo icons?
Really not sure how I feel about this.
Omnicidal Tendencies
Jeremy Scahill interviews Liz McAlister, one of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 and wife of the late Phil Berrigan, on The Intercept podcast titled “Omnicidal Tendencies.” You can listen here: https://theintercept.com/2019/10/23/omnicidal-tendencies-the-nuclear-presidency-of-donald-trump/
On a whim, I Googled Jeremy Scahill, whom I’ve admired for years, and it turns out he was raised by two Catholic activists and spent a year living at Jonah House, founded by Phil and Liz. Here is some more information on that:
“The Blackwater scandal of American (and other) mercenaries in Iraq and elsewhere popped up on my radar as yet another dark chapter in this national nightmare surrounding Iraq. Yet I didn’t explore it as much as I would have liked (or should have) until channel-surfing the other night I came across a Bill Moyers’ interview with Jeremy Scahill, author of an impressive book of investigative reporting on Blackwater. The interview and parsing of the media counter-attack by Blackwater CEO Erik Prince was illuminating, and chilling. And Scahill’s dedication, work and presentation were beyond impressive, to me.
Catholic antipodes
I was not aware, however, that Scahill and Prince are both Catholic, until last night I read an Oct 12 profile of Scahill in NCR. Scahill was raised in a Catholic Worker home, and went to live at Jonah House with the Berrigans in Baltimore for a year in the 1990’s.
It had a profound impact on me, he told NCR. I think that being alive in the times that we live in means to be a resister…For me, media is a nonviolent weapon in that struggle.”
By David Gibson
October 21, 2007
Commonweal
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/catholic-antipodes
First Day of Trial
Outside the courthouse for the first day of the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares activists. We interviewed three of them on the podcast back in August: Martha Hennessy, Carmen Trotta and Clare Grady.
Below are some speeches they gave last night at the eve of the trial. Both of these videos have been taken from the Kings Bay Plowshares Facebook page and were posted by Steve Dear.