Rick Malloy, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and cultural anthropologist.
White America, Listen! Shame on us that the Obamas need to fear.
posted by A Jesuit's Jottings at
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
My life as a Jesuit Priest and college professor calls me to preach a full and flexible Catholicism, a religion trumpeting the fact that God loves us (see my book _A Faith That Frees: Catholic Matters for the 21st Century_ [Orbis books]). The God who is Love calls us to construct a world wherein all can grow Happy and Healthy and Holy and Free. Christians, as followers of Jesus, are all invited and impelled by the Holy Spirit to live a Faith that does Justice. Justice consists in the Righting of Relationships on both personal and societal levels. Jesus wants us to reach out to our sisters and bothers around the globe who suffer in poverty and share the wealth of the world. St. Ignatius, the founder of the Society of Jesus (i.e., the Jesuits) said it best: "Love is better expressed in deeds rather than in mere words."
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Hey Rick,
Send me your email. I'd like to drop you a line. I've got a gmail address of dcushwa. Please delete this comment after you retrieve it. Thanks.
Dave Cushwa
Dear Fr. Malloy,
Why are you shouting when you write an article? Why is the liberation of Iraq bad? Do you not think the world is better off with out Saddam and his sons,killing soccer players, gasing fellow Iraqis and running active rape rooms? Are you not in the least bit sensitive to the fact that the numbers of Iraqis murders of which nearly 85% were killed in non-combat by fellow Iraqi warlords, drug cartels, Sunni / Shia violence. Do not Iraqi children deserve protection? Are not Iraqi mothers just as important as American mothers? I think that a Jesuit priest should be able to decifer moral equalents a little better. There is a difference between murder and those killed in combat.
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