From the archives: November 14, 1969
bian atrocities or the cause of those atrocities. The second contradictory reality is that though the KLA may look like a small and heroic band of brothers, it is, in fact, a pale imitation of...
...But today we have an alternative in lifetime imprisonment...
...It should be clear from NATO's actions now that this is an unacceptable and untenable goal...
...It too has apprentice Slobodan Milosevics in its ranks...
...We cannot overcome crime by simply executing criminals, nor can we restore the lives of the innocent by ending the lives of those convicted of their murders...
...no\ onas,»rusti- brcviarit's in the lij;ht ui a I*ullnitin men's lounge, delv spjiiplwJ copi-j...
...As with many human practices that have historically rested on self-defense and the protection of innocent life, killing those who kill has a visceral resonance in our basic sense of justice...
...Second, do not send NATO ground troops to Kosovo until Milosevic (or his successor) has agreed to peace...
...Third, the KLA should be disarmed...
...frame, smpulars like big postage .stamps glued here Onl\ it we need a community, however imperfect and there on kids in rh<- swimming pool, l.M J. at tin- Only it we need curb, other...
...Placing their views in the context of the consistent ethic of the life, the board argues: "Increasing reliance on the death penalty diminshes all of us and is a sign of growing disrespect for human life...
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...It too has rabid nationalists in its midst...
...The second contradictory reality is that though the KLA may look like a small and heroic band of brothers, it is, in fact, a pale imitation of its Serb neighbors...
...This was a ghetto Ut brow, Lhurchmgs, car blessings, name-saint days, that had no one to say "(.atholic Is Beautiful" o\ er it...
...i>W- nun Appnvichod, food-rhibding in LmL tncyoths m».'•/•"(¦' Wi'uW u e fi» Mf« r off ;i.i<h ><r vnUvm...
...Finally, having suffered such bloodshed and abuse to achieve a modicum of self-determination, the Kosovars should ratify it by constitutional means and confirm it by international agreement that, indeed, they will remain within their current borders, whether as an autonomous region or independent nation...
...And it will be a banner day, when we no longer need bombs to stop the likes of Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic...
...iARBj Wii i.-s Commonweal 6 April 9,1999...
...First, through bombing, systematically degrade Yugoslav military forces in Serbia and then in Kosovo...
...It should not be left as a military force whether in an autonomous Kosovo or an independent Kosovo...
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...On this Good Friday, a day when we recall our Savior's own execution, we appeal to all people of good will, and especially Catholics, to work to end the death penalty...
...We can put them in jail for life...
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...They are astute to acknowledge that many Catholics cling to the belief that their church, having once supported the death penalty, should continue to do so...
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...The bishops also write "we are challenged by the evolution in Catholic teaching on this subject...
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...The Greater Albania that is the goal of the KLA and at least some Kosovar political leaders is in the interests of neither NATO and Western Europe nor other Balkan nations...
...bares as midnight nonn-d on S»iturday .ibour tho leiliuids eil iiu-enw, .altar bovs dropping the pny««t s j;itimai v ul using Mciiiiit.nn Standard Timo to begin birettri with j plop, pinpng ot \ylophono cHhiun at the pre-l'omirmmon fasl J'libul rites, superstitions, C nnscvration, fiiils with Kleenex hairpinncd to their marks of the l^tholii ghetto- -and, .ill of them, in heads, kitchen makhbi>\es stuck in the s.ind under Mpnia ot a i-omimimly...
...It too has committed atrocities, but against ethnic Serbs in Kosovo...
...Pics Inir c>n All Souls (and ducking in and out or Men ruse up tu change this world who did not love church all 6a\ for the indulgence), pla>hc hoh water it—di'mcntLtl tefii'hcrb...
...NATO ground troops should serve as peacekeepers only...
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...i!' rr it •, tho stored rnnily L-aten in marathon ^luttony jfter noiin mi Muly S.Uurdci), pncsLs mumbling their Binfto, large familifs, fish on Vridni...
...Ihest' marks and rites were the red-cupped iandles, tJie teen-ager in her formal not so mm h .lltercd, refined, I'lovatixi, tWonnerl, transleering up a ladder in May with flower-, for the plav figured, as- -o\ ernighl—erased...
...We no longer need capital punishment...
...For these reasons and many others, NATO and the United States ought to stick to their chosen course of action...
...KILLING OF ANOTHER KIND ¦ In a Good Friday statement, the adminstrative board of the bishop's conference calls for an end to the death penalty in the United States...
Vol. 126 • April 1999 • No. 7
