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CORRESPONDENCE Misplaced certitude Rensselaer, Ind. To the Editors: In their pastoral letters on peace and on economic justice, the U.S. bishops observe that the second part, where principles...
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...No one can fault him for Raming how to defend himself in his youth and to rescue others, as he did in the Second World War, through the use of violence...
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...It could also explain the mystery of Le Chambon and the Trocm6s...
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...Schalk was the author of A History of the German Peoples and was a frequent commentator on topics of general and Catholic interest on Swiss and German television networks...
...In this world of Original Sin, of many different dysfunctions, the violence of World War II on the part of the rescuers seems understandable and reasonable, even though there may have been some amount of self-interest in that crusade...
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...He says: "Those who tout a 'surgical air war' either don't understand the challenge or are simply deceptive...
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...Hallie and many others in today's world to understand or accept this form of motivation...
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...To the Editors: Philip Hallie ["A Choice of Weapons," October 26] is a good man...
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...And J. Bryan Hehir [in a column on the Gulf crisis] states that "proportionality is a difficult criterion to invoke...
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...Obviously, a certain amount of faith and theology enters into this point of view...
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...bishops observe that the second part, where principles are applied to specific cases, does "not carry the same moral authority as our statements of universal moral principles...
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...One could make the same assessment of other statements he makes...
...I do think it could explain why people like my brother, Carl Kabat, would become a missionary priest and has now spent the past fourteen years in American prisons for the cause of justice and peace with nonviolent love...
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...I think it behooves moral theologians, when speaking on topics as complicated as warfare in the Middle East, to express their own opinions with a little less certitude, especially when a soldier's refusal to carry out the orders of a commanding officer is in question...
...He also operated an arts and crafts shop, "Casa Arlecchino," in Indemini...
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...Schalk, about sixty-seven, was a former editor of Today magazine and one of the founders of the Sun Heraldin Kansas City, Missouri, a predecessor of the National Catholic Reporter...
...the article was a follow-up to a nearexclusive prereferendum report published in June 1989...
...To the Editors: A number of your readers will wish to know of the death of Adolph Schalk, an occasional contributor to Commonweal and other U.S...
...If the former, what authority does the statement carry...
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...S c h a l k ' s most r e c e n t a r t i c l e in Commonweal ["Champagne for the Losers," January 12, 1990] discussed the Swiss vote on a referendum to abolish the army...
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...Interestingly, the next article in that same October 26 issue was about the quiet witness of Franz Jaegerstaetter, another mysterious story...
...The old catechism question and answer (now somewhat revised) may have had much to do with their motivation...
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...His article shows he is sensitive to love and compassion...
...I would guess that "'the meaning of life" did enter into the motivation of the people of Le Chambon, their pastor Andr6 Trocm6, and his wife Magda...
...Louis native and former Chicago resident, he died November 12 of cancer in a Swiss hospital...
...I do not, however, speak as a moral theologian or a military strategist, but as a concerned citizen...
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...To Hallie the story of Le Chambon remains an impressive mystery, one that is hard to explain to him since he says he is not much concerned with "the meaning of life...
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...for many years he had lived in a remote mountain-top village, Indemini, in the Italian-speaking canton of Switzerland, Ticino...
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