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Against War: Building a Culture of Peace

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From the beginning of his papacy, Pope Francis has made concern and action for peace and nonviolence one of his signature themes. From his travels to Iraq and other war-torn regions to his prophetic homilies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, he has called the world to pursue a different path. Now, with the recent crisis in the Ukraine, his powerful voice is more prophetic and necessary than ever. "Faced with the images of death that come to us from Ukraine, it is difficult to hope. Yet there are seeds of hope. There are millions who do not aspire to war, who do not justify war . . . . Millions of young people who are asking us to do everything possible and seemingly impossible to stop the war, to stop all wars. It is in thinking first of all of them, of young people and children that we must repeat together: Never again war! And together we must commit ourselves to building a world that is more peaceful because it is more just, where it is peace that triumphs and not the folly of war; justice, and not the injustice of war; mutual forgiveness, and not the hatred that divides and makes us see the other, the person who is different from us, as an enemy." --Pope Francis

Biographical Note:
Robert Ellsberg is the publisher and editor-in-chief Orbis Books. He is the author of many books about saints and holiness, including All Saints, Blessed Among All Women, The Saints Guide to Happiness, and A Living Gospel: Reading God's Story in Holy Lives. Strongly influenced in his youth by his work with Dorothy Day, he has edited five volumes of her writings, including Selected Writings, The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day, All the Way to Heaven: Selected Letters of Dorothy Day, and most recently, On Pilgrimage: The Seventies.

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Table of Contents:

Introduction: War Is a Sacrilege. Let's Stop Feeding It!. . . . . . . . . . 1

With War, No One Wins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

War Destroys the Future. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

We Have Accumulated Weapons and Lost the Peace. . . . . . . . 8

What's the Point of Showing Your Teeth?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

With War, No One Wins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Spending on Weapons Sullies the Soul. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Human Life before Any Strategy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Abuse of Power Condemns the Helpless. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Every Conflict Is a Defeat of Humanity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

The Good Sense to Negotiate. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Let's Not Forget the Many Wars around the World!. . . . . . . . 18

Those Who Have Weapons Sooner or Later End Up Using Them. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

A Culture of Death. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

The Culture of Indifference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

War Is Born in Human Hearts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

War Eliminates All Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

A Madness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

A Monster That Destroys Humanity and the World. . . . . . . . 27

Conflicts Also Disfigure the Environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28

The "Piecemeal" World War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Affecting the Little Ones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

We Listen to the Little Ones. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Looking at Reality through the Eyes of Its Victims. . . . . . . . . . 30

Terrorism Has Nothing to Do with True Religion. . . . . . . . . . 31

The Criminal Folly of Nuclear Weapons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

A Global Problem. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

A Tremendous Power. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

A Great Deception. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Peace Cannot Be Built on Mutual Distrust. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Atomic Weapons Are Senseless. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Protect Every Life: From the Apostolic Journey to Japan (November 23-26, 2019). . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

The Dream of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons. . . . . . . . . . 45

Nuclear Power for Military Purposes Is Immoral. . . . . . . . . . . 49

Hiroshima Is a Catechesis on Cruelty. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

The Only Solution to Conflicts Is Dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Peace and Fraternity: From the Apostolic Journey to Iraq (March 5-8, 2021). .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Fraternity Is Nourished by Solidarity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Weaving a Single Fraternity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

We Look to Heaven and Journey on Earth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Love Wins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69

Jesus at Our Side. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

Church and Society Open to All. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

A Better World. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

When the Seed Dies, It Bears Much Fruit. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Peace Is a Gift. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

There Is No Alternative to Peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84

Peace Comes from the Cross. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85

True Peace Costs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Nonviolence: A Style of Politics for Peace. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89

An Artisanal Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Peace Is a Path. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Peace Is Daily. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Dialogue Opens the Way. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

Pray for Those Who Do Not Love Us. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100

Learning the Art of Dialogue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101

Architecture of Reconciliation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Overcoming Evil with Good. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Peace Is the Priority. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103

Ecological Conversion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Brothers and Sisters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108

Fraternity Is the Grace of God the Father. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Easter Makes the Encounter with the Other Sprout Up. . . . . . 112

Follow Another Logic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114

Prayers. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

A Prayer to the Creator. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

An Ecumenical Christian Prayer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Prayer for Fraternity. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117

Prayer of the Children of Abraham. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119

Prayer for the Victims of War. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120