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Catholics Against Militarism (CAM) is an informal, grassroots, Internet-based movement of lay Catholics that seeks to identify and respectfully challenge militaristic attitudes in the U.S. Catholic Church. We conduct interviews with Catholics and other Catholic groups who are: 1) successfully registering dissent at the parish level, 2) raising awareness of the dangers of militarism through dialogue with fellow believers, and 3) spurring deeper, more honest reflection on the role of violence in our world.
An overview lecture on Gospel Nonviolence from the Shantidas story that Fr. McCarthy begins with to the Maura Clark letter at the very conclusion. Shared with permission from John Dear and Fr. McCarthy.
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Ellen points out what she sees as major flaws in the film, contrasts the film with the book, and explains what she liked about the film!
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Ellen's thoughts on what really happened at The Battle of Milvian Bridge, with help from Virgil.
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Short meditations written by Fr. McCarthy in summer 2026, sent out daily via email from July 1 - August 9, during the fast for Gospel Nonviolence.
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On the 250th birthday of the United States, we recognize and celebrate the witness of Ben Salmon, a Catholic conscientious objector during WW1, and are excited to share with you Patrick Thompson's short film, "One Inch," that helps to tell his story.
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Ellen OD's on nostalgia on the anniversary of Michael Jackson's death and sends Nick Fuentes a Superchat.
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Ellen reviews the new Steven Spielberg film, Disclosure Day (which is about demonic possession, mind control, and the abuse of children) with a little End Times speculation thrown in.
0:00: Intro & Why I'm Doing this Review
--work of Daniel O'Connor
3:47 How the film begins
8:00 "Catholic" aspect -- They just can't write a good story without us!
11:00 St. Benedicta & goodness to children
13:00 Emily Blunt's character and PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Aliens)
19:45 Core themes of movie
24:40 Hugo character
26:45 Demonic possession
30:40 WHERE ARE THE ALIENS IN THIS ALIEN MOVIE?
31:30 Killing for the good of humanity: inversion of religious symbolism
35:26 Animals
37:52 Shape-shifting, deception, and mental breakdown
40:30 Aliens are empathetic
42:25 A new twist on the virtue of humility!
46:40 More shape-shifting, deception, and trickery
48:23 Demons, myths, Fr. Rosetti, and Cardinal McElroy
52:19 Hansel and Gretl
55:39 The stand down
1:00:51 The disclosure that takes place OFF CAMERA
--power to the people?
-operation mockingbird -- reporting is just repeating
-now let's recall YOUR childhood trauma!
1:10:00 The conversion of the Jews in the End Times: How/why will it happen?
1:18:51. Who is really afraid of what they don't know? Hmm... Who doesn't approve of certain questions? Hmmm....
1:21:43 -- Steven Spielberg & Poltergeist
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Fr. McCarthy's thoughts on Pope Leo convening an extraordinary consistory of the College of Cardinals at the Vatican on June 26-27, 2026. The Consistory is slated to discuss Catholic just war theory.
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Fr. McCarthy responds to Bishop Barron's recent statement on "X"/Twitter, a social media site.
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Ellen reads an email from Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy that introduces a reflection written by Frank Schweiger and delivered at a Catholic Mass that concerns Selective Conscientious Objection.
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Ellen reads an email from Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy about Selective Conscientious Objection and an article he wrote about it in 1969.
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Ellen reads an email from Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy about Selective Conscientious Objection and something very concrete the Catholic Church can do NOW to help Catholic Just Warists in the United States, whether they are in or out of the military.
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Ellen reads an email from Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy about Selective Conscientious Objection.
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Bishop John Botean reads his Holy Week 2026 pastoral letter, which echoes his letter of 2003.
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Some reflections on a recent trip to the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, and the "planned ambiguity" in Catholic Church teaching when it comes to war.
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Some reflections on a recent trip to the ancient temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece, and the "planned ambiguity" in Catholic Church teaching when it comes to war.
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Ben Salmon No Just War Registry for Conscientious Objection
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40-Day Summer Retreat for Teens: July 1 - August 9, 2026
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Ellen reacts to Archbishop of Archdiocese for Military Services' appearance on Face the Nation on April 5, 2026, about war with Iran.
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40-Day Summer Retreat for Teens: July 1 - August 9, 2026
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You've got to hand it to him: He knows how to cut through the crap!
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HOMEWORK FROM THIS EPISODE:
Top 10 Q&A about Gospel Nonviolence
Episode 104: Battle of Lepanto
Episode 115 & 117: Ellen analyzes Catechism passages on war
Episode 118: Planned Ambiguity in the Catechism
Episodes 87-89: Fr. McCarthy on Military Chaplaincy
Episode 142: Put Down the Duckie
Episode 72: Infallibility & War
Episode 100: Open Letter to EMJ (Catholics at War and the Heart of Tragedy)
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Too often Catholics say "But we have a right to self-defense" and leave it at that. It's not so simple. Here's a breakdown explaining why.
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Fr. McCarthy responds to Netanyahu's comments that "history proves that unfortunately and unhappily Jesus Christ has no advantage over Genghis Khan."
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Reflections on today's reading (John 11:1-45) in light of Netanyahu's recent comments (about Jesus having "no advantage over" Genghis Khan) and the last podcast (Episode 143).
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Thoughts on Netanyahu's press conference on March 19, 2026, Jesus Christ, Genghis Khan and the JQ.
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A message from Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy to the Christian churches.
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Ellen reads a bedtime story, with commentary.
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Fr. McCarthy delivers an important message on the Pope's comments on Venezuela.
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Fr. McCarthy offers a bit of oral history about the founding of Pax Christi USA and the recent election of Lauren Bailey, a "Catholic for Choice," to the board. Ellen follows up with some impressions from the conference held in Atlanta on the 40th Anniversary of Pax Christi USA.
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In 2019, I interviewed Hugh Turley about the book he wrote with his co-author, David Martin, "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation." In 2023, Turkey and Martin published a follow-up: "Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The Case Against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin." Mr. Turley is back to tell us about the latest book and to give us some updates on the latest news about the investigation, new artistic ventures thalami to bring the story of Merton's death to light, and a possible cause for canonization.
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A reflection written by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy on the first week of Advent, 2026.
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The most destructive and forked tongued teaching on Jesus’ Way and Truth in Church history: Christian Just War Theory.
This was published originally at Fr. McCarthy's channel and is republished here with permission.
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This ran originally on Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy's channel and is shared here with permission.
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Fr. McCarthy reflects on the life and death of Roger LaPorte, who set himself on fire on November 9, 1965, to protest the Vietnam War, and offers some thoughts on the response of Catholic bishops, priests, and laity to this act, and the choice of Thích Quảng Đức, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who set himself on fire in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government in 1963. More recently, Aaron Bushnell immolated himself outside the Israeli embassy in Washington shouting "Free Palestine" on February 25, 2024.
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Thank you to Cecilia and Samuel Dean for allowing me to share this video written and produced by Cecilia. This is being published on Veterans Day, because one of the best ways to honor veterans is to listen to them.
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René Girard died 10 years ago today. There is one Bible story that he said represented "the history of all religion" and held "the secret to everything."
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I'm applying for a job hosting a show at the Daily Wire. How do I get this video to Ben Shapiro?
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Fr. McCarthy weighs in on Ellen's debate with E. Michael Jones on the JWQ (Just War Question).
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In this episode, I'm reading aloud a chapter from Fr. McCarthy's book, "Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit."
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This interview appeared on John Dear's podcast "The Nonviolent Jesus." Check it out!
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I want to share what I will "Never Forget." Thank you for listening.
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Trying to reconcile these two men's views on the founding of our country.
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Ellen reads the introduction to E. Michael Jones's new book "Walking with a Bible and a Gun" and announces a new class on the book with the author.
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Ellen reads an article published in La Civilta Cattolica in July 1991, a few months after the Gulf War.
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This episode is just an explanation of the opening lines of The Iliad, for those who might yet want to sign up for the class that starts Tuesday, June 3, 2025.
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Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to talk about Gaza and "Just War". (We always have to put that in quotes, because that's how it appears in the Catechism. The Trinity doctrine, however, and by the way, does not appear in quotation marks in the Catechism. Interesting, isn't it?) Buckle up!
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Fr. McCarthy joins us to help make sense of the confusion in the Catechism on war and killing. (Reference Episodes 117 & 115.)
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The JWQ = The Just War Question(s). Rhetorical questions, mostly. In this episode, we cover the section on "Avoiding War" in the Catechism. I'm just sayin': It could be explained better! I want a Venn diagram!
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An essay written by Ellen in 2015, originally published on LewRockwell.com.
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The JWQ = The Just War Question(s). Rhetorical questions, mostly. In this episode, we cover the Fifth Commandment as it's explained in the Catechism. I'm just sayin': It could be explained better! I want a Venn diagram!
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On this World Day of Peace, Jack Gilroy (guest Ep. 6) and Mark Scibilia-Carver (guest Ep. 34) return to the podcast to give us an update on the project to get Ben Salmon recognized a saint, and Mark's new initiative to start a nationwide Catholic Conscience Objector registry. Featured song/video by Martin Kerr (used with permission!)
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Roger LaPorte (July 16, 1943 - November 10, 1965)
A Reflection by Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy
Roger La Porte immolated himself on November 9, 1965, as his response to the high tech and financially profitable massacre of the people of Vietnam that the U.S. politicians and military were conducting 7200 miles from the border of the U.S.—and to which most of the U.S. citizenry at the time were indifferent. The sacrifice of his life was his response to this wickedness and to the mass media deceit that was calculatingly covering up the daily fare of atrocities that men in the U.S. military were committing against the Vietnamese.
When news of his death, the manner of death and the motivation for his self-immolation became known, few in the Church had a good word to say about him, and most had clever, subtle, demeaning and dismissing innuendos when asked to comment on Roger. I was appalled then and remain appalled to this day at the way my fellow Catholics from Cardinal Spellman to Thomas Merton to Dorothy Day and most other Catholics threw Roger overboard.
Yet, I remember the aura of religious heroism, the almost reverend adulation, with which some of these same people treated the self-immolation by the sixty-six-year-old Buddhist monk, Thich Quang Duc’s, two and a half years earlier in Saigon on June 11, 1963—although they disagreed with self-immolation as a form of protest for themselves. Yet, where Roger was concerned, it was a radically different response, tenor and tone that was adopted.
But, to his eternal credit, Rev. Daniel Berrigan stood by Roger to the end and beyond, and in my mind rightly interpreted Roger’s act, motivation and witness. Dan did not and would not—nor would I— counsel Roger to choose such a witness. Dan, however, left no doubt after hearing Roger's death bed confession that Roger was following his conscience and was not trying to commit suicide, but rather, was voluntarily accepting suffering and possibly death so that others might have their sufferings relieved and their deaths avoided. Dan paid a price for standing by Roger publicly and privately, having the cruel wrath of Cardinal Spellman and his own Jesuit Order immediately come down on him.
Regardless of how we die, we all die totally dependent on the mercy of God. No one dies saying, “Lord, have justice on me.” In relation to the Vietnam War, Roger made his choice and others made theirs. Roger’s act resulted in him being burned to death. The acts of other U.S. Catholics and Christians resulted in tens of thousands of Vietnamese being burned to death.
Remember at this moment, the DOW Chemical Napalm Holocaust in Vietnam. Imagine the agony of that! That was Roger’s agony multiplied tens of thousands of times over. Indeed, Dan Berrigan after visiting Vietnam during the war called it “The Land of the Burning Children.” But one will search in vain for evidence that the wrath of Cardinal Spellman or of the Jesuit Order came down on any of the Catholics who set tens of thousands of human beings on fire in Vietnam, or on any Catholic institutions, e.g., universities, that taught Catholics to obey those who ordered them to burn Vietnamese people to death. Nor is there any evidence that the wrath of Cardinal Spellman or the Jesuit Order came down on any Catholic or Catholic organization who was indifferent to the destruction of Vietnamese children by the truckload each day. As is the case today in the Catholic Church hierarchy in relation to the genocide of the children of Palestine.
—Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
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This talk, called "In Search of the Truth," is the third talk by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy in his 3-part series "Theology of Christian Nonviolence." Find the entire three-part series here:
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This is a talk by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy.
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"A TRAGEDY BEYOND CALCULATING: The State of Israel Has Become The Tomb of The Jewish Soul" -- A talk given by Daniel Berrigan, S.J on Oct. 19, 1973, shortly after he completed his parole in a federal sentence for acts of nonviolent resistance against the Vietnam war. The speech was printed that month in American Report, a publication of Clergy and Laity Concerned, the anti-Vietnam War Organization.
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This is a talk by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy.
Episode 94: The Stoics: Masters of Their Domain
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Interview with Kathy Moylan, 81-year-old Catholic Worker, who wants you to write to the Pope and ask him to go to Gaza, circulate a petition in your church to this effect, and/or contact the Nuncio in Washington D.C. in hopes of reaching Pope Francis, who can do something by going to be with "the least of these."
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This is part 3 of 3. See Episodes 104 & 1065for Parts 1 and 2.
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October 7 is the anniversary of the Holy League's victory at Lepanto in 1571, and the anniversary of the attack on Israel in 2023.
This is part 2 of 3. See Episodes 104 & 106 for Parts 1 and 3.
0:00 Charlie McCarthy and two hippie students meet Fr. Payton, the famous "Rosary priest"
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18:20 Fr. Payton's anniversary Mass of his death
-- a discovery
32:28 When governments are "big on religion"
--our friends in the CIA
37:03 St. Michael and war in Revelation
42:59 Fear and love
45:00 Destroying the image of Mary
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October 7 is the anniversary of the Holy League's victory at Lepanto in 1571, and the anniversary of the attack on Israel in 2023.
This is part 1 of 3. See Episodes 105 & 106 for Parts 2 and 3.
0:00 Facts of The Battle of Lepanto
10:11 Similarities with Iraq in 2003
14:05 Pious V and The Inquisition
16:16 A spiritual disaster
27:21 Battle of Jericho & Gaza
--Jewish massacres and ethnic cleansing in the Old Testament
46:23 Connection between Lepanto and Jericho
52:59 Were The Crusades just?
1:05:25 The cunning of reason
1:09:05 Buy your "combat rosary" today!!!
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This talk was given by Fr. Charles Emmanuel McCarthy for the annual prayer vigil at Trinity Site, New Mexico, on July 16, 2024. This was the location where the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945.
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An audio essay written by Dr. Jordan Almanzar and originally published on PrimeMatters.com, Nov. 1, 2022.
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Saint Maurice, Feast Day, September 22. Followed by a homily given by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy on August 9, 2024, at the end of the Annual 40-Day Time of Prayer and Fasting for Gospel Nonviolence.
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Ellen reads aloud a new essay "Catholics at War & The Heart of Tragedy," A letter from EMF to EMJ.
0:00 Background on the essay
2:26 Introduction
THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT
8:52: The Railroad Switch
22:09 Tension, Confusion, or Delusion?
38:28 The Ancient Eddy
53:52 Our Polar Night
MY PROPOSED REMEDIES
1:06:17 The Hidden Grammar of the Hidden Grammar of the Universe
1:24:00 Invitation for EMJ and YOU!
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On November 18, 1969, during the height of the Vietnam War, a group of Notre Dame students protested the presence of Central Intelligence Agency and DAO (Defense Attache Office, Saigon) on campus. At the time, Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy was a professor in the literature department; he had also founded and was the Director of The Program for the Study and Practice of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution. Ten of the students got expelled. Fr. McCarthy ended up resigning, to show solidarity with the students.
On the 50th anniversary in 2019, Fr. McCarthy and four of the former students reunited to tell the story of what happened that day, why it happened, and how it has affected their lives, as well as the ripple effects it has sent through the institution of the University of Notre Dame.
0:00 Fr. McCarthy provides an overview of the event
3:50 Mark Mahoney, John Eckenrode, Chris Cotter, and Carl Estabrook (faculty member at the time) introduce themselves
4:55 Mark Mahoney on what it was all about
7:35 John Eckenrode tells his story and explains the 15-minute rule
12:08 Did the school set them up?
17:00 A retired DOW President gives Notre Dame $10 million
19:32 School would not even allow DOA and students to talk off campus
21:50 Suspensions and scapegoats
23:40 Fr. Hesburgh's treatment of the episode in his book
25:17 John Eckenrode explains the choices the students had and the way the legal case(s) unfolded
29:25 How Fr. McCarthy was "deceived" and how Fr. Hesburgh's book was "misleading" and sometimes "wrong"
37:07 Consequences in the university
44:38 Notre Dame's growth and endowment targets go from $35 million to $1 billion
48:38 John Eckinrode notes you will not find any plaques or memorials to the authors who exposed CIA or the conscientious objectors from Notre Dame
54:30 The "false witness" of Notre Dame
1:04:45 Question from a reporter: "How did this affect your life and what did you learn?"
1:24:00 Question from a reporter: "Would you recommend civil disobedience as a course of action to protest any topics today?"
Episode 1: Author Interview with Rev. Emmanuel McCarthy
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Jason Knudson joined the Navy in 1998, deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and now works in innovation and defense. We talk about the ongoing war in Gaza, among other things. Jason's perspective, which is different than mine, and comes from outside Catholic teaching on war, I see as a dose of worldly wisdom that the CAM podcast needs (not that I believe much in worldly wisdom on the topic, but it is worth hearing if only because, sometimes, worldly wisdom seems more connected to reality than the opining of the Catholic Just Warists who only want to talk about war in the theoretical and the abstract). Longtime listeners will, I hope, make connections with the ideas discussed more broadly on this podcast and will, I hope, share those observations charitably and thoughtfully in the comments section.
I highly recommend Episode 45 as a follow up to this conversation: https://youtu.be/SEMwUG2EJyc
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Thanks to David Gray for the interview on "Off Code and Unscripted" over at St. Dominic's Media. David certainly did his research! He hits on some highlights of the CAM podcast over the last few years. Part II will work as a great overview and introduction for new viewers/listeners of CAM! Note: You'll hear audio from videos Ellen previously made that he is playing from other videos during the livestream.
Part I: Ellen's satire and personal background
Part II: War, Just War, Christian Nonviolence
47:30 Catholic teaching on war and the proper context for JWT
52:39 The question we "SHOULD" be asking right now!
56:00 What do we do in the face of mass human "failure" on an institutional and nationwide level and the tendency for humans to resort to violence?
1:03:00 Responding to critiques of Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy
1:10:53 Is the sacrifice of the soldier the greatest sacrifice?
1:12:10 Hacksaw Ridge and the power of God
1:15:25 One final question regarding was the Church wrong to defeat the Muslims? Self-defense? Hitler? Battle of Lepanto? Etc.
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Join me in the class with Hugh Owen "Six Day Creation"! Starts June 4.
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This is one of my favorite episodes I've ever had the pleasure to record. Enjoy!
0:00 Why Hugh started the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation
11:34: Is this Sola Scriptura, Protestant Fundamentalism?
18:30: What is "theistic evolution"?
24:31 Hugh's father and family history (U.N., Planned Parenthood)
28:25 The relationship between Theology, Philosophy, and Natural Science and how things got messed up among the Catholic intelligentsia
42:10 Is there any crossover with the work of E. Michael Jones?
(The video newsletter Hugh references in this part of the interview can be found here: • The Scofield Bible & Darwinism ~ Kolb... )
52:48 How the traditional doctrine of Creation is connected to war and the messages of Our Lady of Fatima
1:07:47 A clarification on "the errors of Russia" and the connection between evolution and Communism/materialism
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Patrick Thompson, who has been studying Fr. McCarthy's work, is my co-host in this episode on Stoicism and Christianity. (Our conversation takes some interesting turns!)
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0:00 Patrick Intro
10:20 Epictetus & Stoics
13:17 Relationship between Stoicism and Christianity
23:33 Stoicism
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--reason and perception
32:40 The Major Difference
--"The Bet" on Seinfeld
51:37 Constantine and the Cross
58:05 Gethsemane and more differences
1:05:05 Socrates
1:14:06 Attitudes towards death
1:26:00 Gambling versus loving
1:36:58 Popularity of Stoicism and Commercialization
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Bishop John Michael Botean (Romanian Catholic eparchy of St. George in Canton Ohio) issued this Lenten Letter to his people in 2003. The letter was read from the pulpit of all Romanian Catholic Churches on March 9, 2003. This document represents the strongest antiwar stand by any Catholic bishop in the United States (and quite possibly the world) in relation to America's invasion of Iraq. Employing his full apostolic authority, Bishop Botean rules that it is morally impermissible for members of his flock to lend their support to this war effort. The document is avaiable from several sources on the internet. This particular version was posted on the Center for Christian Non-Violence (http://centerforchristiannonviolence.org/downloads/Pastoral_Letter_Iraq_War.pdf) retrieved on 7/28/2008.
-https://www.scribd.com/document/4196399/Pastoral-Letter-Iraq-War
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Three emails sent out by Fr. McCarthy to his email list from February - March 2024.
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Thank you for listening! You can find the original essay "Do Heroes Go to Heaven?" at LewRockwell.com:
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Friends, if could you support me and the work I do on this podcast, I would be so grateful. Here’s a list of 8 different ways you can help keep the podcast alive, thriving, and growing in 2024.
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This video is the third in a series of three was originally titled "The Christian Military Chaplaincy: An Orwellian Ministry; Part III, A Ministry of the Ministry of Peace."
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This video is the second in a series of three was originally called titled "The Christian Military Chaplaincy: An Orwellian Ministry; Part II, A Ministry of the Ministry of Love."
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Why are Christians so easily led, pushed, and lied into war time and time again? Why are we so easily duped? Ellen thinks the Military Chaplaincy is one reason. The video that starts after Ellen's Introduction was made by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy and was originally titled "The Christian Military Chaplaincy: An Orwellian Ministry; Part I, A Ministry of the Ministry of Truth".
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My guest in this episode, Melissa Presser, talks about her conversion to Catholicism and credits Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross) with aiding in that conversion. Fr. McCarthy is my co-host in this episode. The Church credits the intercession of Edith Stein with the miraculous healing of his daughter, Benedicta, whom he named after her.
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Dr. Robert Sungenis talks about how he became interested in the idea of Geocentrism -- and the new class he'll be teaching at Teach to the Text!
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Recorded on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Sign up for the 2023 Behold the Lamb, Pre-Advent, Online Retreat with Fr. McCarthy here: https://bit.ly/45YGRV1
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Brief explanation of and thoughts on "intrinsic evil" by Fr. McCarthy.
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This is the second part of the interview. Recorded on Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023. Sign up for the 2023 Behold the Lamb, Pre-Advent, Online Retreat with Fr. McCarthy here: https://bit.ly/45YGRV1
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This is a reading of a personal, segmented essay I wrote back in 2012 and was originally published in Relief Magazine in December of that year.
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Trent Horn's original video is here:
https://youtu.be/6amuetZv-eM?si=VTq1g653L26NsFeY
This is more of a "reaction video" than a rebuttal video.
If it is a critique, my only critique is that Horn doesn't go far enough. It is a critique of his TREATMENT of the issue, not his views, and his treatment is the usual and standard approach in Catholic circles; thus his video is REPRESENTATIVE of the larger thing I'm trying to critique, if that makes sense.
In case it is not clear in the video, mine is a 3-part critique:
1) As most Catholics tend to do, Horn presents the Catholic controversy around the dropping of the atomic bombs ONLY according to highly selective Church teachings, and he references only certain Catholic arguments, specifically those that are made when looking at the issue through the keyhole of Just War Doctrine.
2) Though one can infer or assume that he is implicitly basing his exploration and discussion on tenets of the Just War Doctrine, he doesn't explain that doctrine to his audience, and so the "Catholic" standards and Church teachings are getting mixed up with secular or worldly definitions and rules, i.e. the UN definition of "war crimes," which muddles the issue.
3) He drops the ball when he fails to address how World War 2 AS A WHOLE would fare as a "good" or "just war" if the standards of Just War Doctrine were "strictly applied," specifically the standards of Jus In Bello: For if the war is not being conducted according to the rules, no Catholic can fight in it. So, WHAT KINDS of bombs the Catholics are dropping and under what circumstances or with what motivation becomes a moot point. The real issue becomes: Why did so many Catholics participate in an UNJUST WAR in the first place? That's the question that should be asked here.
I admire Trent Horn. He's obviously very intelligent, but this was not his strongest video. His coverage of the issue seemed sparse and kind of patched together. If I were to speculate, I'd that he is more than aware of the logical contradictions and inconsistencies that become obvious when you wade into these waters, hence he can only hint at or briefly touch upon the glaring problems before closing out the video, giving a nod to the "real issues" but stopping short of fully exploring them. Maybe that is because he, like 99.9% of the people in the Catholic Church, he has only explored these issues while looking through the keyhole of Just War Doctrine. Maybe, like 99.9% of the Church, he's never given any serious though to the the other, wider perspective of Gospel Nonviolence. Hence, I wanted to invite him, and you, to my retreat. Retreat link: https://bit.ly/45fItsa
What do YOU think?
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"Why do the people who are in this movement sometimes not want to be called a pacifist?"
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Select passages from "Letters from Abu Ghraib" by Joshua Casteel.
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Closing homily delivered by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy at the annual prayer vigil at Trinity Site on July 16, 2023.
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The opening homily delivered on July 15, 2023 by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy at the annual prayer vigil at Trinity Site.
This was first published on Fr. McCarthy's YouTube channel in July 2023.
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This was first published on Fr. McCarthy's YouTube channel in May 2023. The transcript for this audio is available here @t/d/1SysmdB8RAw6N9cqYHt3kpjQxTkMl8Z3vHDEpuvikxeQ/edit
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Bread Alone: A Contemplative Study of The Hunger Games for Christians: https://teach-to-the-text.teachable.com/p/bread-alone-a-contemplative-study-of-the-hunger-games-for-christians1
The original version of this essay was published on Dec. 11, 2013, and can be found at LewRockwell.com:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/ellen-finnigan/what-catholics-got-wrong-about-the-hunger-games/
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The new class:
Bread Alone: A Contemplative Study of The Hunger Games for Christians: https://teach-to-the-text.teachable.com/p/bread-alone-a-contemplative-study-of-the-hunger-games-for-christians1
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2023/06/ellen-finnigan/to-reach-peace-teach-peace/
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What do an earthquake in Turkey in 2023 and an extended monsoon season in Vietnam in the late 60s have in common?
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Fr. McCarthy reflects on a personal experience and offers his thoughts on abortion and war.
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Please watch this short video after you listen to this short presentation: https://youtu.be/Ebg2YnBj9II
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A Reflection by Fr. McCarthy on the Feast Day of the Holy Family. (Published one day late.)
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I am inspired by my friend Peter's faith, and I thought it would be good to share with you some of his takes on life, God, society, and -- you know -- the point of it all, especially as we think at Christmas about the importance of charity. "The greatest of these is love."
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by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy.
Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy reads a reflection he wrote on Advent.
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Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy's third reflection on Advent.
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Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy reads a reflection he wrote on the second week of Advent.
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Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy reads a reflection he wrote on Advent.
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A reflection on Cardinal McElroy and the U.S. Bishops, written on November 19, 2022, by Fr. McCarthy and recorded shortly thereafter.
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E. Michael Jones returns for his third interview on the CAM podcast, this time about the overturning of Roe v. Wade and its aftermath.
0:00 New book The Dangers of Beauty
5:36 The soul
8:36 Overturning of Roe vs. Wade
---Most significant event that has happened since, according to Dr. Jones
---Ben Shapiro's talk in South Bend
16:44 Women, Abortion, and the Vote
21:00 Who is James Carroll?
--Antisemitism
--Writing "fantasy" in The New Yorker
27:00 Evolution and Abortion
--Transformation and Change
--"What idiotic evolutionists don't understand"
--Do Catholics "deny time and change"?
39:09 Ben Shapiro
41:50 Dave Chappelle's SNL monologue
45:55 Pre-Socratic thought
50:27 Logos Rising class with Dr. Jones?
53:22 Quick take on 2020 madness
55:21 Random final questions
Links will be added soon!....
Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy reads a reflection he wrote on November 11, Armistice Day, Veterans Day, St. Martin of Tours Day.
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Follow up to 2020's Parts I and 2 with Fr. McCarthy. And Ellen announces a new venture!
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First study: Let's Read The Iliad
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A personal narrative of a canoe trip taken July 29-Aug. 13, 1962, written by Fr. George Zabelka, found by Ellen and read here on Aug. 9th in memory of Fr. Zabelka, in celebration of life, and as a protest against the metaverse.
August 9, a book by Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AUGUST-9-Book-by-Fr-Emmanuel-Charles-McCarthy.pdf
OPENING HOMILY, TRINITY SITE, JULY 16, 2022
https://youtu.be/Q4SPl-24j1Y
CLOSING HOMILY, TRINITY SITE, JULY 16, 2022
https://youtu.be/teIxGYCWVb4
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Overwhelmed by current events? This is a reading of the essay "Events and Pseudo-Events" from the book Faith and Violence by Thomas Merton.
August 9 marked the 40th anniversary of Fr. McCarthy's ordination. This is a recording of the homily he gave at his first Divine Liturgy (Mass) on September 13, 1981, previously heard only by the people who were there. It tells the story of an incredible 20-year journey that led a Roman Catholic boy from Boston to being ordained by Patriarch Maximus V as a married priest of the Melkite Rite on August 9, 1981 in Damascus, Syria; but even more importantly, it is the story of a God who knows each person intimately and loves each person infinitely.
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Fr. McCarthy's related material
August 9 (book): (link coming soon)
Pondering a Miracle (essay/reflection): https://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.o...
Also on CAM:
Episode 13: The Miracle of Edith Stein: https://youtu.be/s1VLV1m1hRA
Episode 1: Author Interview with Rev. Charles McCarthy: https://youtu.be/M8LTAoheRpg
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Guests Brian Jobe and Jordan Almanzar join us for a freewheeling conversation on the Catholic scholar Rene Girard, his thoughts and theories, and how we see them reflected in the world today.
Dr. Jordan Almanzar earned his Ph.D. in History and Literature of Ancient Christianity from Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany. He currently teaches Latin and Greek at Magdalen College and Kolbe Academy.
Brian Jobe studied Classics at the University of Washington and the University of California at Santa Barbara. His writing has been published at National Review Online, Korrektiv Press, Letter X Magazine, and Dappled Things.
10:14 Girard and Politics
---two words for enemy: "inimicus" and "hostis"
--Who is my enemy?
18:40 The Two Tyrannies
-- Satan as victim
21:57 Just War Theory
---escalation to extremes
---categories of enemies
--why Girard was rejected by so many Catholics
28:52 Is violence the last taboo? Or do we minimize it?
38:34 "History has meaning, and that meaning is terrifying."
--skapegoating
44:00 Loss of distinctions
---unsanctioned violence
49:00 Jumping in the river to avoid the rain
54:40 Supra-Christianity
59:53 "They know not what they do."
1:07:24 Recommendations for those who want to learn more about Rene Girard
For an introduction to Girard, try this 5-part radio series by the Canadian Broadcasting Company, which includes an interview with Girard:
https://auticulture.com/the-skapegoat-rene-girard-cbc-series-mp3-downloads/
Books by Brian Jobe:
Birds Nest in Your Hair
https://www.amazon.com/Birds-Nest-Your-Hair-Brian/dp/0983151318/
Words of the Day: Doggerel
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0983151334/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tpbk_p1_i0?pldnSite=1
Books by Dr. Jordan Almanzar:
He Whom a Dream Hath Possessed: The Life and Works of the American John Knox
https://www.amazon.com/Whom-Dream-Hath-Possessed-Urchristentums-ebook/dp/B07QNGRJ8Y
When the Earth was Flat: One Boy's Life at the Edge of the Millennium
(memoir, forthcoming...)
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Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy joins us to answer this important and thought-provoking question: Should a Christian vote?
0:00 Intro
4:39 The Smothers Brothers
PART 1
8:22 The perspective Fr. McCarthy is coming from
11:53 Does Fr. McCarthy vote? Why or why not?
19:55 Clinton vs. Bush, 1992 (example)
25:13 The critical thing in society
--crimes against humanity
--the Patriot Act
29:55 Concluding thoughts
PART II
30:23 What is the nature of government?
-- Leo Tolstoy (quote)
--Carl J. Friedrich, Professor of Government at Harvard U. (quote)
39:32 Is this "Christian anarchism"?
44:47 Should no one have this kind of authority over others?
47:29 What about Section 2240 in the Catechism of the Catholic Church?
--the word "authority"
54:11 The U.S. Constitution and the Gospel
--the balance of powers
1:01:08 Summing up
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Writer and former professor Edward Curtain joins us to talk about his research into the events of September 11th, some similarities we see with COVID today, and his new book, "Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies."
0:00 Edward's background
2:00 Trump and foreign policy
11:35 Similarities between COVID and Sept. 11th
15:35 "Science!"
21:22 "Conspiracy theories!"
---The Kennedy's and the CIA
30:30 More echoes of Sept. 11th
38:22 The body as mediator of reality
46:17 Story from a local Catholic parish
50:15 From Marine to conscientious objector
57:25 Edward's new book
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Also mentioned on the podcast:
"Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies" book by Edward Curtain
"The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9-11, the Cover-up, and the Expose" by David Ray Griffin
"The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton," by Hugh Turley and David Martin
"The Coming War with China" documentary
"American Values: Lessons I Learned from My Family" by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
"Chasing the Light" by Oliver Stone
Seventy-five years ago, during the Second World War, Fr. George Zabelka was the Catholic chaplain for the 509th composite group, the group that dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the mid-1970's, Fr. Zabelka repented for the role he played in the Second World War and became a public advocate of Christian nonviolence. No Catholic publication in the late '70s was interested in publishing the story of his conversion. Even after his story became internationally known in the '80s and a documentary was made, no American t.v. station, either Catholic or secular, was interested in televising it. This podcast tells the story of George Zabelka from the perspective of his friend, Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy. Hear about the rocky start to their relationship, George's virtues of faithfulness and courage, their lunch with Charlie Sweeney (the Catholic who dropped the bomb on Nagasaki), and some of the fruits that came from Fr. Zabelka's work towards the end of his life. Note: Parts 1, 3, and 5 focus on George. Parts 2 and 4 digress but provide helpful context and more food for thought.
Part 1 0:00 - 1:14:55
Part 2 1:14:56 - 1:39:30
Part 3 1:39:31 - 2:09:47
Part 4 2:09:48 - 2:43:47
Part 5 2:43:48 - end
To further explore this topic, the following are recommended:
"Blessing the Bombs," article by George Zabelka
"A Military Chaplain Repents," interview by Fr. McCarthy (originally published in Sojourners)
"The Reluctant Prophet" documentary (1989)
"August 9," booklet by Fr. McCarthy
"Conversation on Christian Nonviolence" with Fr. George Zabelka, Fr. McCarthy, and Mairead Corrigan McGuire
"The Church a Fold of Lambs," talk given in "Behold the Lamb" by Fr. McCarthy
"The Miracle of Edith Stein," Episode 13 of the CAM podcast
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What if someone is trying to kill your wife and kids? Are Christians supposed to stand by and do nothing? No! Fr. McCarthy uses a story about Clarence Jordan in the 1940's to demonstrate how nonviolent love is neither passive nor powerless. It is a skill that requires practice and creativity. Jordan found himself in a situation that was not entirely unlike the situation many Catholics feel they are beginning to find themselves in today, in the summer of 2020. Though the details aren't exactly the same, the same dynamics seem to be at work, and Christians are facing the same kinds of choices he faced then with regard to the use of violence.
0:00 Intro by Ellen
2:47 What would you do if...?
14:00 Clarence Jordan and Koinonia Farm
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https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/index.php/resources/audio-files
"Briars in the Cotton Patch: The Story of Kononia Farm"
https://youtu.be/u336LXW2d-c
"The Cotton Patch Evidence: The Story of Clarence Jordan and the Koinonia Farm Experiment (1942-1970)
https://www.amazon.com/Cotton-Patch-Evidence-Clarence-Experiment/dp/1610976428/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=clarence+jordan&qid=1595445175&s=books&sr=1-5
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Fr. Mark educates us about teaching on war in the Orthodox Church. Along the way, we also discuss: Russia's new "military cathedral," Koinoinia Farm, Mikhail Kalashnikov (the inventor of the AK-47), and the connection between war and the American funeral industry.
0:00 Fr. Mark's background
7:00 Russian Orthodox Church and the new military cathedral
10:40 History of the Orthodox Church
13:28 Teaching on war in the Orthodox Church
21:06 What steps could the churches take to return to the nonviolent Way of Jesus Christ?
30:58 Is all life sacred?
41:18 Kalashnikov rifle
47:19 Christ tramples down death by death
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Fr. McCarthy joins us to talk about:
0:00 Who is worthy of life?
14:41 Another, more fundamental question
20:23 The Christian's choice
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Ellen provides some commentary on the #DefendOurChurches movement.
0:00 Intro
3:41 The two streams of tradition
5:38 What the dudes are saying Catholics should do
16:25 A critique of what the dudes are saying
19:38 The "Just Defense" mentality runs rampant
29:06 A Pinterest conspiracy?
30:28 "There is a war on Christianity" -- Taylor Marshall
32:12 What's this about blood?
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Also mentioned on the podcast:
Donate to Timothy Gordon at his website here:
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A Harvest of Justice is Sown in Peace
http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/what-we-believe/catholic-social-teaching/the-harvest-of-justice-is-sown-in-peace.cfm
Behold the Lamb
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLExfYuh4OTPv4gWqqfZSbA8iFdnaH_BBC
In this episode, Ellen analyzes sixteen lines from Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex, and wonders if the pagans understood the nature of violence better than we do.
0:00 Intro
2:08 Background to the play
5:03 Oedipus's narration of what happened at the place where three roads meet
20:41 Oedipus's later claim of self-defense
24:59 Key points of reflection
30:03 Two personal anecdotes
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How are they alike? How are they different? Is Gospel Nonviolence an option or an obligation? Does one have to be a Christian to love like Christ?
0:00 Intro
3:20 Gandhi, Jesus and Tolstoy
8:41 The problem that arises
13:46 Love and fear
16:58 What is fear?
21:11 Jesus and fear
27:46 A lesson from the life of St. Theresa of Lisieux
31:14 The two big differences
37:27 Ending on a controversial note
40:05 Questions and Thoughts
---Participation in police/military and conscientious objection
---The Infallibility Decree of 1870
---Is Gospel Nonviolence an option or an obligation?
---Can only Christians love like Christ?
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Mentioned in the podcast:
"The Kingdom of God is Within You," by Leo Tolstoy
"Gandhi on Nonviolence," by Thomas Merton
Ellen investigates some intriguing footnotes on the Visitation of Mary (as told in the Gospel of Luke) and reads aloud from an essay written in 2016 called "Matriot or Patriot?" Covered: feminism, beheadings, World War I, wandering wombs, Mother's Day/Month, female Secretaries of State, recent popes on war, Beyonce/torture, and more.
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Also mentioned in this video:
"Women and War" by Ellen Finnigan
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/05/ellen-finnigan/women-war/
Memorializing Motherhood: Anna Jarvis and the Struggle for Control of Mother's Day
https://www.amazon.com/Memorializing-Motherhood-Struggle-VIRGINIA-APPALACHIA/dp/1938228936?imprToken=TWVcmnrCKEqDcW2gMbSLCw&slotNum=0&SubscriptionId=AKIAI63WS3YGA3Y5U2QA&tag=lrc18-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=1938228936
On May 21, the feast day of Blessed Franz Jagerstatter, Fr. McCarthy joins us to tell us his thoughts on the film "A Hidden Life" (2019). Did the film portray the "real" Franz? Why can Franz be considered, not just a prophet of the Church, but a prophet to the Church? And why is his feast day on the day of his baptism instead of the day of his death?
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The United States has reached an impasse: Either end the draft entirely, and abolish the Selective Service system, or expand the draft to include women. Edward Hasbrouck joins us today to explain the outcome of last year's National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service (NCMNPS) and to inform us about the bill to abolish the draft (H.R.5492), as well as the possibility of a medical draft in the near future if the draft is not abolished.
Go here to send a letter to your representatives in favor of H.R. 5492:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/repeal/
Go here to send a letter to your representatives in favor of H.R. 5492:
https://worldbeyondwar.org/repeal/
0:00 The "stalemate" on the draft since the early 80s
10:33 The 2019 NCMNPS
--where things stand now
--the bill that has been introduced in Congress
17:04 The many objections to the draft
20:30 H.R.5492 to abolish the draft
22:32 a Medical Draft
26:25 Conscientious objection
28:24 The fantasy of limitless power
32:05 The "sexist, pro-war perspective"
34:50 Feminists in favor of requiring women to register
36:46 The "poverty draft" (and the pandemic)
37:42 How the existence of the draft shapes military planning
38:48 What you can do
40:42 Edward has faith in the young!
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https://www.resisters.info
https://www.hasbrouck.org
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Also mentioned in this podcast:
H.R. 6415 - "Inspire to Serve Act of 2020"
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/6415
In his recently published memoir "Writing Straight With Crooked Lines" (2020), Jim Forest writes about growing up during the Cold War the child of two Communists, his struggles with marriage, and his spiritual quest, which led him to working with Dorothy Day at the Catholic Worker in the early sixties and to befriending some of the twentieth century's most famous spiritual leaders, including Thomas Merton, Phil and Daniel Berrigan, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Jim spent over a year in jail for protesting the Vietnam War, and he co-founded the Catholic Peace Fellowship with Tom Cornell (still in operation today), which helped thousands of Catholics to register their dissent as conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War. But that's just the beginning. This interview wasn't nearly long enough, but Nancy had made dinner, and well, it was growing cold, so we covered what we could! He joins us from his home in Alkmaar, The Netherlands.
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https://jimandnancyforest.com
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Also mentioned on this podcast:
"Writing Straight with Crooked Lines" by Jim Forest (2020)
https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Straig...
"The Ladder of the Beatitudes" by Jim Forest
https://www.amazon.com/Ladder-Beatitu...
"Catholics and Conscientious Objection" (1966) by Jim Forest
https://jimandnancyforest.com/2015/08...
"The Root of War is Fear," by Jim Forest
https://www.amazon.com/Root-War-Fear-...
"The Root of War is Fear," article by Thomas Merton can be found in "The New Seeds of Contemplation"
https://issuu.com/samzdat/docs/passio...
Some thoughts on the documentary "Out of Shadows" and why it should be watched.
"Out of Shadows" (2020)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MY8Nfzcn1qQ&t=1108s
0:00 The documentary
7:04 Anderson Cooper
10:20 Whitney Houston and other Christian singers
16:58 Jessica Lynch
26:51 The Franklin Cover-up
36:02 PizzaGate and "fake news"
45:12 Normalization of pedophilia
56:01 Disney
58:56 The good news
Also mentioned in this episode:
America's Celebrity Killers
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2014/11/ellen-finnigan/americas-celebrity-killers/
Vigilanti Cura (1936) Pope Pius XI
http://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_29061936_vigilanti-cura.html
Whitney Houston and the 2012 Grammy Awards Mega-Ritual
https://vigilantcitizen.com/musicbusiness/whitney-houston-and-the-2012-grammy-awards-mega-ritual/
Ben Swann does a "Reality Check" on Pizzagate
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GZFHLAcG8A
Mom Blog: "Disney is Ruining My Kid"
https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/mom-blog-disney-ruining-kid/
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Thoughts for Holy Thursday: Fr. McCarthy explains how the Nonviolent Love of Jesus for both friends and enemies is historically at the heart of His passion and death. It must therefore be communicated as being ineradicably at the heart of the Eucharist.
Find this lecture in written form here:
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com/speeches-and-sermons/the-nonviolent-eucharist/
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www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org
www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org
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Part III of the "coronavirus conversation" with Fr. McCarthy. What lessons can we learn from the plagues on Egypt as they appear in Scripture? What is the spiritual significance of this moment in history? How do we find peace, and what is the role of the Church during a pandemic of fear?
9:51 "Fear not"
13:00 "Fear and trembling"
---Sidenote: Edith Stein on the afterlife
22:15 The plagues on Egypt
31:30 Jesus saves! How?
33:31 God's judgment
36:56 Peace
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https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org
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Also mentioned:
"Some Guiding Reflections on the Icon of the Servant of Yahweh, Edith Stein, St. Teresia Benedicta of the Cross"
https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/sites/default/files/media/resources/EdithStein/GuidingReflections_3.pdf
Part II of the "coronavirus conversation" with Fr. McCarthy: Does the U.S. have something like the "patriotic church" of China? What does it mean to be "Hunthausened"? What should the Catholic Bishops be doing right now? (Stay tuned for Part III when we discuss what we should be doing right now.)
0:00 Control and the impersonal agencies of the state
4:43 Iraq 2
6:53 The "patriotic church"
8:30 The case of Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen
21:44 Romans 13
30:15 What is the responsibility of the Bishops right now?
31:59 Intelligence services of the Catholic Church
--Malachi Martin
34:49 Authoritarianism can't work without church leadership
39:13 Oh, how nice: Suddenly, there is positive news about Catholics!
40:15 Non-profit / non-prophet
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Fr. McCarthy gives us a history lesson on the role the mass media plays when it comes to social and economic engineering, as we try to figure out what to make of this coronavirus situation. (Part I)
1:00 Tom Brady (just because)
6:06 A funny meme
7:00 What is this thing?
11:26 "A New Pearl Harbor"
15:48 Spanish American War and Cuba
20:00 The oldest trick in the book
22:13 Trump and "fake news"
25:40 9-11 Truth movement
29:54 Gasoline "crisis" in the 70's
35:59 What, besides bodies, is the biggest carrier of viruses and bacteria?
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http://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org
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On the 17th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq , Mark Scibilia-Carver tells us about his website and the Scroll of Remembrance he created for American Catholics (or at least those who had Catholic funerals) who have died in this pre-emptive, unjust, and unnecessary war. Let us pray for and grieve the loss of all victims of the "War on Terror."
https://thecatholiccostofwar.org
Mentioned in this episode:
Mark's website: The Catholic Cost of War / Scroll of Remembrance
https://thecatholiccostofwar.org
"An Invitation to Rethink 100 Years of Catholic Support for War"
by Mark Scibilia-Carver
https://www.bensalmon.org/news/an-invitation-to-re-think-100-years-of-catholic-support-for-war
Nicholas Rodriguez, Requiescat in pace
Jordan Logan Bear, Requiescat in pace
Jose Antonio Guitirrez, Requiescat in pace
Keith Jesse Moore, Requiescat in pace
Mark Rochetto De Alencar, Requiescat in pace
Aidan Gonzalez, Requiescat in pace
Eric W. Herzberg, Requiescat in pace
Andrew John Bacevich, Requiescat in pace
Thomas Karl Dorflinger, Requiescat in pace
Jonathan Michael Cote, Requiescat in pace
Gregory Buckley, Jr., Requiescat in pace
James "Jimmy" Kalitz, Requiescat in pace
Cardinal James Gibbons' 1917 Letter to the U.S. Hierarchy
https://www.bensalmon.org/uploads/8/2/5/7/82576010/usccbgibbonsletter.pdf
"Toward a Responsible Transition in Iraq" -- USCCB
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/global-issues/middle-east/iraq/statement-by-bishop-wenski-toward-a-responsible-transition-in-iraq-2006-01-12.cfm
"Letter to President Bush on Iraq" -- USCCB
http://www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/human-life-and-dignity/global-issues/middle-east/iraq/letter-to-president-bush-from-bishop-gregory-on-iraq-2002-09-13.cfm
"Is it time to cancel the USCCB?" -- Patrick Coffin
https://youtu.be/57-c_eOLiPM
The little known writing of Saint Patrick and a few thoughts on "Irish Catholicism," with our special guest, Fr. McCarthy.
0:00 The icon that Fr. McCarthy made
8:45 "Killing" versus "murder"
17:17 Fighting Irish
19:13 Irish Catholicism
22:24 Jansenism
35:07 "Felt banners" and the Second Vatican Council
38:00 Return to the good ol' days?
39:40 A little diddy
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Mentioned in this podcast:
"Epistola Ad Milites Coroti", one of two surviving writings of Saint Patrick
These are short meditations on the final day of Jesus' earthly life written and recorded by Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, and they are used here with his permission.
"Jesus, Remember Me" “copyright © Ateliers et Presses de Taizé, 71250 Taizé, France.”
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An interview with Hugh Turley, co-author of the book "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation." In the more than fifty years since Merton passed, this has been the only investigation of his death ever conducted.
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Mentioned in this episode:
"The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton: An Investigation"
https://www.amazon.com/Martyrdom-Thomas-Merton-Investigation/dp/1548077380/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2CNV8XVI3XOWR&keywords=the+martyrdom+of+thomas+merton&qid=1582888800&s=books&sprefix=the+martyrdom+of%2Caps%2C218&sr=1-1
Seventeen Techniques for Truth Suppression
https://dcdave.com/article3/991228.html
Vince Foster Murder Cover-up
http://www.fbicover-up.com
Dave Martin's website
www.DCDave.com
"The Assassination of James Forrestal," by David Martin
https://www.amazon.com/Assassination-James-Forrestal-David-Martin/dp/0967352126/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?keywords=the+assassination+of+john+forrestal+david+martin&qid=1582888877&sr=8-1-fkmr1
"JFK and The Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," by James Douglass
https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=jfk+and+the+unspeakable&qid=1582888947&sr=8-1
A look through the spiritual classic "The Seven Storey Mountain" to find out what shaped Thomas Merton's views on war and how those views developed in the first half of his life. (Note: spoilers!)
0:00 Intro
3:13 Early life
8:12 Leaving England/Cambridge (1934)
15:48 Communism at Columbia
---The Peace Strike and The Oxford Pledge
22:23 Merton discovers the need for a spiritual life
25:25 The "one truth people need to learn"
29:09 Rumors of war
---Signing up for the draft
40:41 Merton's draft number gets called
--discerning whether the war is just
48:52 Goodbye to a loved one
50:30 Thomas Merton: an enemy?
Source text:
Merton, Thomas. "The Seven Storey Mountain, An Autobiography of Faith." Introduction by Robert Giroux, Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, Harcourt Inc., 1948.
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Ellen shares a personal story and reads her essay "What about Franz?", a reflection on the film "A Hidden Life" written in January 2020.
0:00 Personal story
4:12 Christ the King
11:22 Things Hidden
22:39 Similarities between Franz and Ben
25:07 Speaking versus Silence
35:37 Better Questions
Mentioned in this episode:
"A Hidden Life" (2019) trailer
https://youtu.be/qJXmdY4lVR0
"Quad Primas" encyclical
http://www.vatican.va/content/pius-xi/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_11121925_quas-primas.html
American Conscientious Objector Ben Salmon -- sign the petition here!
https://www.bensalmon.org/letter
"The Refusal," the story of Franz Jagerstatter
https://vimeo.com/44379110
"The Life and Message of Ben Salmon"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemsuEoB_Ow&t=5s
"There is No Just War" video about Ben Salmon
https://youtu.be/eA9uZ4sZYCA
"What about Franz?" by Ellen Finnigan
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/01/ellen-finnigan/what-about-franz/
"Sophie Scholl: The Final Days" (Full Film)
https://youtu.be/baRvF6ZBK18
"Hacksaw Ridge" (2016)
https://youtu.be/s2-1hz1juBI
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Sam Dean, husband, father of seven children, Catholic convert and former Army Officer (1988-2010), tells us about his quest to find answers to his "Just War" questions and where it has led him.
0:00 Sam's background
7:30 Two memories that stand out from his military career
12:00 Discovering Just War Doctrine / Theory / Tradition (?)
19:15 How JWT is taught in a Catholic seminary
22:20 Sam's quest for answers
-----Chaplains
28:14 A few answers received
35:30 Sam calls in live to EWTN
40:23 Meeting with his Bishop
46:19 What do you teach your kids?
52:05 Militarism in parishes
1:01:50 SAM'S MESSAGE TO VETERANS
1:02:31 Afterword / Some points of clarification
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Mentioned in this episode:
Sam's essay "A Catholic Father in a Perpetual War Society Reaches Out for Help From the Church"
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com/just-war/teach-your-children-well-2/
This is the third and final piece of a longer conversation with Fr. Charles McCarthy. We respond to Bishop Barron's article "1917 and Remembering Who We Are" (Jan. '20), in which he seems mystified as to how Christians, "presumably schooled in the moral principles of Jesus Christ," could have participated en masse in the "folly of war" during WWI, especially since the war was not "proportional". The answer is simple.
Part 1 of this conversation, Episode 25:
https://youtu.be/KQ6iUaIQDHA
Part 2 of this conversation, Episode 26:
https://youtu.be/bWt4mihUA_c
2:44 American Bishops' wholehearted support of WWI
14:31 "presumably schooled in the moral principles of Jesus Christ"
25:32 "proportionality"
31:50 Repent!
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Mentioned in this episode:
"1917 and Remembering Who We Are," by Bishop Barron
https://www.wordonfire.org/resources/article/1917-and-remembering-who-we-are/26302/
Cardinal Gibbon's letter, signed by all United States Bishops, and sent to President Woodrow Wilson in 1918, conveying full support of the war
"What Catholics Got Wrong about the Hunger Games"
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/12/ellen-finnigan/what-catholics-got-wrong-about-the-hunger-games/
"Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit," by Rev. Emmanuel McCarthy
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Just-War-Theory-Deceit-ebook/dp/B07MDZHGJ6/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?keywords=just+war+theory+logic+decipt&qid=1580512640&sr=8-1-fkmr0
"The Organization Man," by William H. Whyte
https://www.amazon.com/Organization-Man-William-H-Whyte/dp/0812218191/ref=sr_1_1?crid=W9BKS0567E1K&keywords=the+organization+man+william+h.+whyte&qid=1580512671&sprefix=the+organization+man%2Caps%2C177&sr=8-1
This episode is part two of a three part conversation. In it, Fr. McCarthy responds to Bishop Barron's take on nonviolence as expressed in his 2016 YouTube video: "Bishop Barron on Daniel Berrigan and Nonviolence." Can Christian nonviolence be likened to celibacy? Are those Christians who choose to be nonviolent, like Daniel Berrigan, merely providing an "eschatological witness"? It might be beneficial to listen to Bishop Barron's whole video (only 8 minutes, linked to below) before listening to this podcast.
You can find part one of this conversation here in episode 25:
https://youtu.be/KQ6iUaIQDHA
1:40 A clip of Bishop Barron's take on nonviolence (abbreviated)
4:00 Initial responses
8:55 The Church's effort to rehabilitate itself
13:24 Can nonviolence be likened to celibacy?
17:20 Toying with eternal salvation
21:40 One more reason Fr. Barron's analogy is a bad one
25:35 Dealing with questions like: "What if all cops were nonviolent?"
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Mentioned in this episode:
"Bishop Barron on Daniel Berrigan and Nonviolence"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-0z2...
"Behold the Lamb"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrTwG...
"What about violence in the Old Testament"
https://youtu.be/c3JOGbYb-dg
"What about Christians in the military/police?"
https://youtu.be/XdCtBV7mRQg
Fr. James Martin recently wrote an article for America magazine entitled "The Teaching of the Catholic Church is Clear: We Are Against War." You might want to read his (very short) article, linked below, before you listen to this podcast. Fr. McCarthy joins us to discuss.
0:00 Intro
3:10 Overview of Fr. James Martin's article
10:08 Revisionist history
13:13 "Against war"? Really?!
16:39 Fr. McCarthy speaks from personal experience
18:41 Total lack of clarity
22:30 Mark Twain anecdote
24:46 The reason for the Church's PR offensive
28:39 1983 pastoral letter
31:03 Implications
34:44 The rules that regulate "teaching" by Catholic chaplains
...This conversation will be continued in Episode 25. Stay tuned!
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Mentioned in this episode:
Fr. James Martin's article in America magazine:
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2020/01/13/teaching-catholic-church-clear-we-are-against-war
Bishop Botean's pastoral letter of March 7, 2003:
https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/node/10
List of wars of the papal state:
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com/war-and-peace/wars-of-the-papal-state/
Fr. McCarthy's book, "Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit"
https://www.amazon.com/Christian-Just-War-Theory-Deceit-ebook/dp/B07MDZHGJ6/ref=sr_1_3?keywords=emmanuel+mccarthy&qid=1580314956&s=books&sr=1-3
Matthew 5:33-38
http://www.usccb.org/bible/matthew/5
USCCB pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response" (1983)
http://www.usccb.org/upload/challenge-peace-gods-promise-our-response-1983.pdf
"German Catholics and Hitler's Wars," by Gordon Zahn (1988)
https://www.amazon.com/German-Catholics-Hitlers-Wars-Control-ebook/dp/B01MA3ZTYL/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=german+catholics+and+hitler%27s+war&qid=1580315172&sr=8-1
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as the result of a conspiracy that included elements of his own government: This was the verdict in a civil trial that took place in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1999. Twelve jurors reached a unanimous verdict after four weeks of testimony and over 70 witnesses. They were only in deliberations for about an hour. Jim Douglass (a guest on the CAM podcast Episode 20) was one of the few who attended the trial. He wrote an essay about it, which Ellen reads on this episode of the podcast.
The American media was not interested in reporting on the trial and continues to tell the American public that Dr. King was killed by a lone gunman. Wikipedia still says: "King was fatally shot by James Earl Ray at 6:01 p.m., April 4, 1968"; the trial is only mentioned briefly, buried under the subtopic "allegations of conspiracy." The NPR article linked below, written in 2018, is a typical example of mainstream "journalism" that takes seriously only several government investigations but fails to mention the civil trial that took place or the verdict in that trial. NPR dutifully assures you: This case is closed; nothing to see here.
"The MLK Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis" by Jim Douglass (Spring 2000)
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unsp...
Complete transcript of the trial:
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKA...
"King and the Cross" by Jim Douglass (2007)
https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unsp...
CAM interview with Jim Douglass:
https://youtu.be/hD4UNcaH2Dw
Example of "coverage" by NPR that omits mention of the trial and its verdict:
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/04/598826...
"Strength to Love" by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
https://www.amazon.com/Strength-Love-...
"Loving Your Enemies" sermon by MLK
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ki...
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Pat McGeehan is a graduate of the Air Force Academy and served as an intelligence officer overseas. A former businessman, he is currently an author and a state representative in the West Virginia legislature. Eric Morris, who was interviewed in Episode 19 and is a former member of the Wyoming National Guard, interviews Pat about the "Defend the Guard Act" and "Bring Our Troops Home," covering a variety of other interesting topics along the way.
0:00 Pat's background
5:20 Catholic intellectual tradition as a road to reversion
13:38 Antimilitarism of Catholic tradition
---Just War Theory and military service today
--questioning things at the Air Force Academy
21:47 Catholic chaplaincy
23:35 Deployment in 2005
--first impressions
--propaganda
--questioning things more
30:20 The "Afghanistan Papers"
--Catholic military leaders, lies
36:30 Secularism
--watered down Catholic teaching
43:22 Bring Our Troops Home / Defend the Guard Act
--building a coalition
56:07 Diocese of West Virginia
--Any support for Pat's efforts from Church hierarchy?
Find Pat McGeehan's books here:
https://www.amazon.com/Pat-McGeehan/e/B073X3MMM8?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1578693888&sr=1-1
Find Pat's legislative record here:
http://www.wvlegislature.gov/House/lawmaker.cfm?member=Delegate%20McGeehan
Bring Our Troops Home:
https://bringourtroopshome.us
Find Eric's writing here:
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/no_author/why-i-am-a-veteran-for-peace/
www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.com
Interview with Eric:
https://youtu.be/xKAPIFJ7h1Q
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Forty-eight hours into the new year and "world war 3" was already trending on Twitter. How can a Catholic respond to so much evil in the world? Is it wrong to be angry? Is prayer and fasting all we can do? What is the relationship of Christianity to activism? Fr. McCarthy returns to give us his thoughts.
0:00 Introductory chit chat
6:00 Thoughts on "nobodies" and hidden things
11:40 So. Much. Evil.
15:20 What do we do about it?
1:00:00 Thoughts on "ends and means" in an election year
---Right to Life movement
Fr. McCarthy's essay on Franz Jagerstatter (2007), "The Man Who Chose to See"
http://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Issue-70_Vocations_Prayer_Franz-Jagerstatter-The-Man-Who-Chose-To-See.pdf
Ellen's reflection on and review of the film "A Hidden Life" (2020), "What About Franz?"
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com/just-war/what-about-franz/
Essay by Fr. McCarthy, "Abortion and War," written soon after Iraq War I commenced
https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/sites/default/files/media/resources/essays/Abortion_and_War.pdf
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Santa Claus is here with a special message for all of God's children, but first Ellen has a few recommendations for the rest of your Advent and Christmas seasons.
0:00 Three recommendations
9:50 Fr. McCarthy, Notre Dame, CIA, and DOW Chemical
15:00 Side note about Fr. McCarthy and Fr. Peyton
Santa video (without intro by Ellen) to share with your friends:
https://youtu.be/K0u7PVOmU-g
Mentioned on this episode:
Behold the Lamb (in English and Spanish):
http://www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.or...
"Joyeux Noelle" (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkKkA...
"A Hidden Life" (2009)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJXmd...
"Boots to Booties"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC7v4...
Ben Salmon
www.bensalmon.org
Sign the petition for Ben's cause for sainthood!
https://www.bensalmon.org/sainthood.html
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www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org
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Jim Douglass, author, Catholic Worker, and lifelong peace and justice activist, explains the importance of Christ's command to "love your enemies" (MT 5:44), recounting an experience he had with an "enemy" within the Church during the Second Vatican Council. He also explains how John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev's own version of love of enemies allowed them to work together to avert nuclear war. He shares with us the three things Dorothy Day told him before she died, and he talks about the connections between John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Dr. King and Malcolm X, and why they died, and why it matters. But most of all, Jim reminds us of the Good News!
0:00 Jim's background
2:50 Two "enemies" (frenemies?) in Rome during Vatican II
--pieces of truth and clarification of thought
--The "Peace Lobby" and Dorothy Day
--fruits in the Catechism
14:50 Why we need enemies
19:30 Dorothy Day's idea of personalism
--The advice she gave to Jim before she died
23:00 The Capitalist and the Communist
--secret correspondence
--Noah's Arc
--Trust in a time of crisis
--Resurrection
31:30 Killed the first time: assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X
--"The Dulles Commission"
--propaganda and brainwashing
34:00 Systemic evil and the "Unspeakable"
--Thomas Merton
--Risk and truth
38:16 Killed a second time
40:30 Connections between JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X
48:35 Question about 9-11
--David Ray Griffin
53:28 Jesus wept
Find Jim Douglass's books here:
https://www.amazon.com/James-W-Douglass/e/B001JS2XF2?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1574291557&sr=8-1
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Also mentioned in this podcast:
CCC (2314): "Every act of war directed to the indiscriminate destruction of whole cities or vast areas with their inhabitants is a crime against God and man, which merits firm and unequivocal condemnation."
"Right and Reason: Ethics Based on the Teachings of Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas," by Fr. Fagothey
https://www.amazon.com/Right-Reason-Teachings-Aristotle-Aquinas-ebook/dp/B00ZMNBKPE/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=right+and+reason&qid=1574302024&s=digital-text&sr=1-1
"Loaves and Fishes," by Dorothy Day
https://www.amazon.com/Loaves-Fishes-Inspiring-Catholic-Movement/dp/1570751560/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=loaves+and+fishes+dorothy+day&qid=1574302129&s=books&sr=1-1
"JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters," by Jim Douglass
https://www.amazon.com/JFK-Unspeakable-Why-Died-Matters/dp/1439193886/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=jfk+and+the+unspeakable&qid=1574303160&s=books&sr=1-2
"The Kennedy - Khrushchev Letters," published by Top Secret (New Century)
https://www.amazon.com/Kennedy-Khrushchev-Letters-Secret-Century/dp/0930751183/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=kennedy+khrushchev+letters&qid=1574303287&s=books&sr=1-1
"Raids on the Unspeakable," by Thomas Merton
https://www.amazon.com/Raids-Unspeakable-New-Directions-Paperbook/dp/0811201015/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2HCWPCDCY3DBO&keywords=raids+on+the+unspeakable&qid=1574303371&s=books&sprefix=raids+on+the+u%2Cstripbooks%2C172&sr=1-1
"Dear Gandhi, Now What? Letters from Ground Zero", by Jim and Shelley Douglass
https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Gandhi-What-Letters-Ground/dp/0865711259/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=dear+gandhi+now+what&qid=1574303418&s=books&sr=1-1
"The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis," article by Jim Douglass
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/04/jim-douglass/the-martin-luther-king-conspiracy-exposed-inmemphis/
Eric Morris recently discovered CAM and reached out to find out how he could join us. He talks to us today about his reasons for joining the military, why he "gets in a funk" around Veterans Day, and where he received his moral and spiritual formation when it comes to issues of war and peace. (Hint: It wasn't the Catholic Church.)
0:00 Eric's background and early influences
5:00 Conservativism and militarism
7:35 Lies and war
9:20 Going into the National Guard
12:50 Talking to high schoolers
15:54 OCS and deployment
19:15 Who taught him (and me) about the evils of war?
24:15 Reasons for hope
28:30 Silence from the Bishops
31:50 Archdiocese for the Military Services
35:00 Family support
37:12 Shout out to a great teacher
Read Eric's recent articles here:
Armistice Day
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political...
Why I Am a Veteran for Peace
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2019/11/n...
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Andrew Bacevich was born and raised a Catholic in Indiana, graduated from West Point in 1969, served in Vietnam, and had a career in the Army until 1992, achieving the rank of Colonel. He obtained a Ph.D. from Princeton in American Diplomatic History. He has taught at Boston University and written many books, including "The New American Militarism" (2005), and "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism" (2008). He is also a recent founder of The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. He joins us on this Veterans Day weekend to talk about American myths and speaks to the tenets of Catholic Just War Theory (JWT).
Catechism of the Catholic Church (2309) reads:
The strict conditions for legitimate defense by military force require rigorous consideration. The gravity of such a decision makes it subject to rigorous conditions of moral legitimacy. At one and the same time:
- the damage inflicted by the aggressor on the nation or community of nations must be lasting, grave, and certain;
- all other means of putting an end to it must have been shown to be impractical or ineffective;
- there must be serious prospects of success;
- the use of arms must not produce evils and disorders graver than the evil to be eliminated. The power of modem means of destruction weighs very heavily in evaluating this condition.
These are the traditional elements enumerated in what is called the "just war" doctrine.
0:00 Intro
3:50 Upbringing
7:00 Thoughts on Vietnam
11:55 American mythology
---self-defense (JWT)
---American exceptionalism
---last resort (JWT)
16:45 Neoconservative views on the use of force
19:18 Israel and the use of force
24:06 Prospects for success (JWT)
25:50 Use of arms must not produce evils and disorders greater than the evil to be eliminated (JWT)
30:23 Where is the Catholic Church?
33:27 Have you changed or has the country changed?
36:20 Next book
37:40 Advice for young Catholics looking to go into the military
38:45 The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Find Andrew Bacevich at:
The Quincy Institute
https://quincyinst.org
Find his books here:
https://www.amazon.com/Andrew-J-Bacevich/e/B003AQW7VG?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1573418729&sr=8-1
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Dr. E. Michael Jones returns to review the film "The Divine Plan" (2019), which celebrates the alliance between President Reagan and Pope John Paul II during the Cold War, and to give his thoughts on "You might be a CIA Catholic if..."
0:00 Dr. Jones's thoughts on the film
3:29 Who violated the treaty that Reagan and Gorbachev sign at the end of the film?
13:00 Dr. Jones on the point of the film
14:35 What was left out about the fall of the Soviet Union
20:15 The OTHER alliance and "missed opportunities"
27:25 The year of 1979
30:50 George Weigel and capitalism
38:50 The price the Pope had to pay
41:00 You might be a CIA Catholic if...
56:32 Random questions for EMJ
Find Dr. E Michael Jones at:
www.culturewars.com
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Mentioned in this episode:
"The Divine Plan" (2019)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZdJx...
"The Improbable Triumvirate: John F. Kennedy, Pope John, and Nikita Khrushchev," by Norman Cousins (1972)
https://www.amazon.com/improbable-tri...
Laborem Exercens, papal encyclical, 1981
http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-pau...
"With God On Our Side," Joan Baez
https://youtu.be/xUZGGFOV6FM
Fr. Tim Taugher, pastor at Saint Francis of Assisi parish in Binghamton, New York, is here to talk about the upcoming Triennial National Collection for the Archdiocese for the Military Services, happening this weekend (November 9-10, 2019) in parishes across the country. He explains why he sent a letter to his bishop back in 2013, refusing to take up the collection, and why he won't be taking up the collection in his parish this weekend. Ellen explains how the first collection for AMS in 2013 led to the creation of Catholics Against Militarism.
1:45 Fr. Tim's effort to "break the silence"
6:27 Fr. Tim reads the letter he wrote to his bishop in 2013
11:17 Parishioners' reactions to a priest who is outspoken against war
15:42 Eclipsing of Catholic tradition by civil religion on a parish level
17:15 Why we originally "protested" the collection
20:30 War is hell / trauma to the soul
27:30 Just War Theory
30:50 Archdiocese for Military Services
39:00 Teaching peace in a time of war and rampant militarism
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Mentioned in this episode:
Fr. Tim Taugher's letter to Bishop Cunningham (2013)
https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/ncr-today/pastor-spells-out-objections-military-archdiocese-collection?_ga=2.174154210.1947061137.1573052409-2113462727.1568914062
NCR article in which Fr. Tim's letter and CAM were mentioned
https://www.ncronline.org/news/parish/military-archdiocese-collection-muddies-nonviolence-message-detractors-say
Ellen's essay explaining the origins of CAM
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2013/11/ellen-finnigan/catholics-against-military-worship/
Register your dissent this weekend:
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Standard-CAM-statement.jpg
Joshua Casteel (1979-2012)
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com/tag/joshua-casteel/
"G.I. Messiahs," by Jonathan Ebel
https://www.amazon.com/G-I-Messiahs-Soldiering-American-Religion/dp/0300176708
Laudato si' (papal encyclical)
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papa-francesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html
Archdiocese for the Military Services
https://www.milarch.org
Ellen analyzes two concurrent events of the past week: the throwing of the “Pachamama" statues into the Tiber River in Rome, and the trial of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 in Brunswick, Georgia. What do these two events have in common? How are they different? And why are most Catholics likely to be interested in (or informed about) only one or the other?
0:00 Background of the two events
4:21 Similarities
25:44 Differences
45:08 A few thought experiments
---the demonic
---Maccabees
---theft
---occasions of sin
52:30 Saint Boniface
57:33 Saint Martin of Tours
1:03:07 Tertullian's "On Idols"
1:08:54 Extortion, Modernism, Salvation
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Also mentioned on the podcast:
Kings Bay Plowshares 7
www.kingsbayplowshares7.org
"Pachamama" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoB_gjuZgf8&t=2s
The Catholic Peace Tradition by Ronald Musto
https://www.amazon.com/Catholic-Peace-Tradition-Ronald-Musto/dp/0934977135
The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg
https://www.amazon.com/The-Doomsday-Machine/dp/B077NPHRKR/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=the+doomsday+machine&qid=1572365645&s=books&sr=1-1
"On Idols," by Tertullian
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0302.htm
Judy Coode is the project coordinator for the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative (CNI) and a staff member of Pax Christi International. She organized two conferences at the Vatican on Just Peace and Nonviolence (in 2016 and 2019), the first of which was likely a major impetus for Pope Francis writing his World Peace Day message in 2017: "Nonviolence: A Style of Politics for Peace." She joins us to tell us about the goals and outcomes of those two conferences, to answer a few critics, and to talk about where the Initiative will go from here.
0:00 Judy's background
2:12 Link between 2016 conference and the 2017 World Peace Day message
5:20 Idea behind 2016 conference
7:44 Unique "fishbowl" set-up for plenary conferences
11:12 Beyond academics and theologians
15:53 Vocabulary lesson
17:12 April 2019 conference
21:02 Where does CNI stand on Just War Theory?
22:52 Is this just another kooky "Pope Francis thing"?
25:37 Judy responds to a critic of the Initiative
33:06 A message about nonviolence
35:06 Ellen has a message for the Pope!
41:06 What's next for CNI?
Find Judy at:
Catholic Nonviolence Initiative
https://nonviolencejustpeace.net
Find us at: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.com
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Also mentioned on the podcast:
"Nonviolence: A Style of Politics for Peace"
https://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/messages/peace/documents/papa-francesco_20161208_messaggio-l-giornata-mondiale-pace-2017.html
Appeal to the Catholic Church (2016)
https://nonviolencejustpeace.net/final-statement-an-appeal-to-the-catholic-church-to-re-commit-to-the-centrality-of-gospel-nonviolence/
Videos from the 2016 Conference
https://nonviolencejustpeace.net/videos-nonviolence-conference-fishbowl-sessions/
Statement following 2019 Conference
https://nonviolencejustpeace.net/nonviolence-nurtures-hope-can-renew-the-church/
Guadium et spes
http://www.vatican.va/archive/hist_councils/ii_vatican_council/documents/vat-ii_const_19651207_gaudium-et-spes_en.html
"Just War? Enough Already," op-ed in Commonweal
https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/just-war-0
"The Pacifist Temptation," op-ed in First Things
https://www.firstthings.com/web-exclusives/2016/04/the-pacifist-temptation
Today (October 11, 2019) is the twenty-first anniversary of the canonization of Edith Stein (Saint Theresa Benedicta of the Cross). Fr. McCarthy tells us about his connection with this fascinating woman, how he came to name one of his daughters after her, and how a prayer tree to Edith Stein resulted in the miraculous healing of his daughter in 1987. In the first twenty minutes, we talk about the lack of interest, on the part of the American Catholic media, in reporting on the full background of the miracle. In the hour that follows, we discuss Edith Stein and the details of the miracle.
See the blog post about this podcast (with more photographs) here:
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com...
0:00 Brief bio of Edith Stein and her canonization
1:44 How the miracle helped give Ellen "ears to hear"
4:38 The meaning of miracles in God's plan
9:40 Discrepancies in coverage of the miracle in the Catholic and secular press
---International versus American press
---EWTN's rejection of Gospel Nonviolence (GNV) as "not Catholic"
---embargo on GNV in Catholic schools, seminaries, and media
---cutting out GNV by de-emphasis
19:59 How God "arranged" Fr. McCarthy's interest in Edith Stein
---significance of the date August 9th
---story of Fr. McCarthy's ordination
35:10 Naming of Benedicta McCarthy and the timing of her birth
37:38 Timing of birth of Edith Stein on Yom Kippur
42:50 The arrest of Edith Stein
---her own words on her life and impending death
47:37 Some corrections on dates
51:25 Two-year-old Benedicta found with 19 times the toxicity rate from ingesting Tylenol
56:20 Fr. McCarthy faces a choice
59:22 When Fr. McCarthy wondered if he was crazy
1:00:16 A strange phone call
1:04:42 The idea for a prayer tree and the full recovery of Benedicta
1:10:58 Fr. McCarthy finds something meaningful in the medical records
1:12:30 What does it all mean?
Also mentioned in this podcast:
"Pondering a Miracle," essay by Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
https://www.centerforchristiannonviol...
ABC News Special, "It Takes a Miracle"
Excerpts from G.K. Chesterton's biography "Saint Francis of Assisi" tell the story of the collapse of Francesco Bernardone's military ambitions and the birth of new dreams.
0:00 Early encounter with a beggar
6:34 Prisoner of war
11:06 Sickness hits
12:00 The Church at this time in history
14:30 A vision "splendid with swords"
16:27 Francis confronts his biggest fear
18:26 Francis the Builder
19:52 On the connection between possessions and weapons
25:04 Conversion, not conquest
34:20 St. Francis meets St. Dominic
37:04 "Patron Saint of Stowaways"
38:24 Francis meets the Sultan
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Father McCarthy returns to explain the difference between pacifism and Gospel Nonviolence and to answer some of your listener questions. Also covered are the events of September 11th, the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church, and censorship by both church and state.
0:00 Is Gospel Nonviolence "pacifism"?
23:55 "Pacifism" and "the greatest treason"
27:55 Discussion of "live by the sword, die by the sword": Level 1
34:43 Discussion of "live by the sword, die by the sword": Level 2
43:18 Is Gospel Nonviolence intentionally surpassed by the Catholic Church?
-----George Wiegel and the Project for a New American Century
-----military chaplaincy
-----what the bishops know: an institutional decision
1:00:53 September 11th, the War on Terror, and the sex abuse scandals in the Catholic Church: Coincidence?
-----story behind the film "Spotlight" (2015)
-----"a warning shot over the bow of the Catholic Church"
-----the Reichstag fire
-----military banquet at bishops' semiannual meeting in Baltimore
1:21:57 Censorship and consciousness
1:34:57 Listener question for Fr. McCarthy: "What about the Crusades and King Louis XIV? What about Our Lady of Victory and the Battle of Lepanto?"
1:41:02 "The Grand Inquisitor" by Feodor Dostoevsky
1:50:52 Does Gospel Nonviolence promote "suicide"?!
1:57:15 Listener question for Fr. McCarthy: "Is a Catholic confessional state a contradiction?"
1:58:42 Listener question for Fr. McCarthy: "How do contact sports fit into Gospel nonviolence?"
2:01:50 A Catholic moral principle that can guide questions related to violence/nonviolence
2:08:50 Fr. McCarthy's time at the University of Notre Dame
-----relationship with Biblical scholar Fr. John L. McKenzie, S.J., (1910-1991)
-----his defense students who protested on-campus recruitment by "agents of atrocity"
-----civil disobedience
2:15:05 Random chit chat
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Also mentioned in this podcast:
"The Grand Inquisitor" by Feodor Dostoevsky
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8578/8...
"Murder in the Cathedral" by T.S. Eliot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICMCb...
"Tales of the South Pacific" by James Michener
Fr. Brian joins us to talk about the plight of refugees, which he witnessed while traveling abroad with Catholic Relief Services. Also discussed are his thoughts on preaching, how he "teaches peace" on a parish level, and why he takes pride in the Catholic Church. He is currently a priest at Transfiguration Catholic Church in Atlanta.
1:00 Meet Fr. Brian
3:05 Fr. Brian "dishes" on Bishop Barron
5:00 The Catholic community and podcasting
8:15 On preaching and "mobilization"'; empowering the laity
14:31 Catholic bishops, current events, immigration
16:08 Fr. Brian's work with Catholic Relief Services
19:46 Some stories of refugees from Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan
36:07 U.S. regime change operations
37:48 The Just War Theory as taught in seminary
43:52 Fr. Brian's thoughts on attending a conference given by Fr. McCarthy
46:48 How Fr. Brian teaches peace in the parish
49:30 Ellen's explanation of CAM (What does CAM promote? What does being a Catholic Against Militarism necessitate? Do all Catholics have to be a "against militarism"?)
58:14 A few thoughts on St. Augustine's JWT vs. libertarian ideas about natural rights and the use of force
59:40 Thoughts on the Catholic Military Chaplaincy
1:08:15 Wrapping up
Also mentioned in this podcast:
Catholic Relief Services
www.crs.org
Caritas International
www.caritas.org
UN Report on Global Trends in Forced Displacement
https://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb...
US Government Tops All for Creating Refugees"
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archi...
List of U.S. Regime Change Operations since 1949
https://williamblum.org/essays/read/o...
Catholic Church teaching on immigrants:
"The more prosperous nations are obliged, to the extent they are able, to welcome the foreigner in search of the security and the means of livelihood which he cannot find in his country of origin. Public authorities should see to it that the natural right is respected that places a guest under the protectio
On April 4, 2018, seven Catholic activists entered the Kings Bay Naval Submarine Base in St. Mary's Georgia to symbolically disarm the Trident nuclear submarines housed there. They are now awaiting trial and face up to 25 years in prison. On this week of their upcoming oral arguments in Georgia, which coincides with the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, three of them, Martha Hennessy, Carmen Trotta and Clare Grady, tell us what they did and why.
1:00 -- The antinuclear activists: "on the wrong side of history"?
2:43 -- Martha, Carmen, and Clare introduce themselves
7:55 -- Clare takes issue with my use of the word "illegal" (oops!)
9:17 -- The teachings of Jesus and the institutional Church
10:42 -- What is the real "criminal conspiracy"?
11:15 -- Acting in the 40 year tradition of the Ploughshares movement
17:30 -- The significance of the date
19:20 -- Why the Kings Bay Naval Base?
20:20 -- What is happening next week and the 4 points to dismiss the charges and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
23:13 -- Why they did this: time to "up the ante" and silence as complicity
28:30 -- What are the "delusions to which we as a country are addicted"?
34:11 -- Is the nuclear issue a thing of the past?
35:07 -- Carmen provides a brief overview of past possibilities for disarmament and how the U.S. provoked a new Cold War
37:10 -- Where does the legal case stand now? When is the trial?
39:22 -- Events happening THIS WEEK in Georgia and D.C.
40:28 -- The nuclear issue as it stands today
43:38 -- "Gangster Grannies"
Read their indictment of Trident: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/about/indictment-1/
Sign the petition to dismiss all charges: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/act-now/
See upcoming events happening Aug. 6 - 11, 2019 in Georgia and D.C.: https://kingsbayplowshares7.org/events/
Read The Long Loneliness written by Martha's grandmother, Dorothy Day: https://www.amazon.com/Long-Loneliness-Autobiography-Legendary-Catholic/dp/0060617519
Listen to interviews with Martha and Clare on the Nonviolent Direct Action podcast:
Jack Gilroy interviews Clare Grady -- https://player.fm/series/nonviolent-direct-action/nda-1-clare-grady-kings-bay-plowshares-activist
Ellen Grady interviews Martha Hennesy -- https://player.fm/series/nonviolent-direct-action/nda-12-swords-into-plowshares
Other things mentioned in the podcast:
Camden 28 -- http://www.pbs.org/pov/camden28/
Pacem In Terris -- http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-xxiii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_j-xxiii_enc_11041963_pacem.html
Isaiah Chapter 2: http://www.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/2
Nuremberg Principles: http://legal.un.org/ilc/texts/instruments/english/draft_articles/7_1_1950.pdf
The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg: https://www.amazon.com/Doomsday-Machine-Confessions-Nuclear-Planner/dp/1608196704
"Beyond Vietnam" speech by MLK, Jr.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC1Ru2p8OfU
Civil Trial of MLK finds conspiracy involving elements of the U.S. government: https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/Unspeakable/MLKconExp.html
icanw.org -- http://www.icanw.org -- International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
Alrighty: Courage, Resistance, and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age -- https://www.amazon.com/Almighty-Courage-Resistance-Existential-Nuclear/dp/0735212317
Every nuclear explosion since 1945: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLCF7vPanrY
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Fr. McCarthy returns to tell us about the 37th Annual 40 Day Fast for the Truth of Gospel Nonviolence, which begins on July 1 and ends on August 9. Listeners are invited to fast over the next 40 days and may wish to use this time to go deeper into the spirituality of Gospel Nonviolence by listening to "Behold the Lamb," a professionally recorded retreat that was given by Fr. McCarthy at the Shrine of the Lamb in Knock, Ireland. (Find links below). It is widely considered to be the most comprehensive and spiritually profound proclamation of Jesus' vital Gospel message of Nonviolent Love. After listening to "Behold the Lamb," you will understand why Fr. McCarthy is considered "the most powerful voice for nonviolence in the world today" (Walter Wink, Professor of Biblical Interpretation, Auburn).
0:00 Background on the 40 Day Fast
12:44 Clarification: the point of the fast
19:35 Fasting does not save. So what does?
29:15 The danger with fasting
31:08 Anecdote about St. Terese of Lisieux
34:00 "Behold the Lamb" and the Lamb as Symbol, Religiously and Historically
42:09 Is Gospel Nonviolence unknown, misunderstood, or intentionally suppressed in the Church?
51:49 The problem with President George W. Bush's "favorite philosopher" and an endless multiplicity of causes
1:01:22 Ending prayer
FIRST TALK OF BEHOLD THE LAMB: LISTEN HERE
(English) The Lamb: To Be Adored and Imitated
https://www.centerforchristiannonviol...
(Spanish) The Lamb: To Be Adored and Imitated
https://www.centerforchristiannonviol...
The COMPLETE SERIES of "Behold the Lamb" can be found in English and Spanish here:
https://www.centerforchristiannonviol...
Related writings by Fr. McCarthy:
An Invitation to Participate in the Annual 40 Day Fast
https://www.centerforchristiannonviol...
August 9th, by. Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy
Peter Lucier served as a Marine Infantryman from 2008-13 and deployed to Afghanistan from 2011-13. His writing has been published in America, The Revealer, and Task & Purpose, among other venues. Today he talks about why we have war, why he went to war, and the path of reconciliation he found upon coming home.
0:00 Intro and background on the article "Not Your Messiah"
4:12 Do we need vets to validate our feelings about war?
9:10 Why do we have war?
16:27 Polytropos
20:30 Growing up Catholic and exposure to Just War Theory
22:56 Marine brother says, "Don't do it" (He does it)
25:23 Belief in redemptive violence, religiosity in war
29:44 Coming home
31:53 Do you question whether what you did was wrong?
38:30 Homecoming and reconciliation
44:47 Lament and "thank you for your service"
49:29 Theology of Justification vs. Politics of Penance
57:47 "Pilgrimage" to Montana
1:00:00 Reparation
1:04:48 What would you tell one of your high school students if he said he wanted to go into the military?
1:09:22 Future plans
(Sorry! Pete's camera looked completely centered when we did the interview on Skype.)
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Find Pete at: https://twitter.com/PeterLucier
Pete's articles mentioned in the podcast:
"Not Your Messiah"
https://therevealer.org/not-your-mess...
"As a Soldier I was Loved for My Sins, Now I Must Repent for Them"
https://www.americamagazine.org/faith...
Other mentions:
Post-Traumatic God, by David Peters
https://www.amazon.com/Post
Terrence Malick's new film, "A Hidden Life," debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May (2019). The movie is about Franz Jaggerstatter, an Austrian farmer and a Catholic who refused to serve in Hitler's army and, as a result, was executed on Aug. 9, 1943. In this episode, Jack Gilroy, a founding member of the American group "Friends of Franz," gives us the inside scoop on how the story of Franz's witness came to be known and why Franz's wife, Franziska, at the age of 94, was seen riding in the sidecar of a motorcycle in 2007! Also, find out why Jack's group is now called "Friends of Franz and Ben."
0:00 Meet Jack Gilroy
3:16 The discovery of Franz by Gordon Zahn
6:30 Daniel Ellsberg credits both Gordon and Franz
8:20 Jack's two trips to Austria and the forming "Friends of Franz"
18:40 Franz's early life and his influential wife, Franziska
21:37 Franz's first "no" to the Nazis
23:48 His second "no"
25:00 The third no: No support from Catholic parish, priest, bishop or community
26:45 Franz's final "no" and death by beheading
28:20 The movement to have Franz beatified and Pope Benedict XVI
30:50 Blessed Franz Jaggerstatter and the "democratic process" of becoming a saint
38:17 Was Franz opposed to all wars or only unjust wars?
39:20 Dr. Erna Putz and her "perfunctory" book (!) that became "A Hidden Life"
42:17 A new era of the Conscientious Objector?
45:25 Ben Salmon, "The Unsung Hero of the Great War"
50:41 Key differences between Franz and Ben
51:46 Ben: jail, trial, hunger strike
55:28 Is a Catholic who doesn't serve his country in war "insane"?
57:46 5,000 words per day and the typewriter
59:13 Is Ben Salmon a saint?
1:04:05 Dedication of Ben Salmon's grave
1:05:33 Getting the word out
1:06:43 How you can help
1:08:09 Final thoughts
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Find Jack Gilroy at:
www.franzjaggerstatter.com
www.bensalmon.org
YOU CAN SIGN THE LETTER TO THE ARCHBISHOP OF DENVER TO SUPPORT THE BEATIFICATION OF BENJAMIN JOSEPH SALMON HERE:
May 30th is the feast day of Saint Joan of Arc, an uneducated peasant girl from France who lived during the Hundred Years war. At the age of 13, she began hearing voices that told her what she must do to save France. Five years later, she dressed as a boy, rode across the countryside, and led an expeditionary force into battle. She was eventually tried for heresy and burned at the stake. Fr. McCarthy talks to us about the problems she presents (or should present) for Christians and how we can determine what is worthy of imitation in the lives of the saints.
John Carmody served as a 2nd Lieutenant Platoon Commander in Vietnam from 1967-68 in an area called Leatherneck Square, nestled near the DMZ. He talks about the "unbridled brutality of war" and explains why it is "a sick process." He also talks to us about his work with PeaceTrees Vietnam, his thoughts on PTSD and Just War Theory, and how he came to be the Founder and Director of the Center for Christian Nonviolence.
Rank: Captain
Read the commendation for his Silver Star here:
http://catholicsagainstmilitarism.com...
Decorations/Medals (awarded):
Silver Star (Only the Medal of Honor and the Navy Cross are more prestigious.)
Purple Heart w/2*
Combat Action Ribbon
Presidential Unit Citation
Meritorious Unit Commendation
National Defense Service Medal
Vietnam Serice Medal
Vietnam Campaign Medal
1:00 Growing up
7:00 Parris Island and Treasured Friendships
11:00 Shipped out
13:30 Faith vs. Service to Country, and the Role of Catholic Chaplains
16:00 Three Irreducible Dimensions of "Agape"
20:56 Coming home, protesting, and thoughts on PTSD
27:00 Frustration, Destruction, and War Crimes
35:00 Story of 2 Purple Hearts
42:30 PeaceTrees Vietnam
47:00 Agent Orange and his resulting bout with cancer
54:45 Turn to Christian Nonviolence
1:00:00 Starting the Center for Christian Nonviolence
1:08:00 Advice for young people thinking about enlisting
Find him at: www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org
Find us at: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.com
Also mentioned in the podcast:
www.peacetreesvietnam.org
Just War Theory, the Logic of Deceit, by Rev. Emmanuel McCarthy (can be found on Amazon)
Editor of Culture Wars magazine, Dr. E. Michael Jones, talks about his antiwar views, and explains how "Americanism" has compromised the Catholic Church.
Find us at: www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.com
Find him at: www.culturewars.com
Mentioned in the podcast:
TESTEM BENEVOLENTIAE NOSTRAE: Concerning New Opinions, Virtue, Nature And Grace, With Regard To Americanism, by Pope Leo XIII
Our guests is Rev. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy is a priest of the Eastern Rite (Byzantine-Melkite) of the Catholic Church in communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope. For over forty-five years he directed retreats throughout the world on the issue of the relationship of faith and violence, and the Nonviolent Jesus and His Way of Nonviolent Love of friends and enemies. He has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and is author of several books. Today he talks with us about the origin of Mother's Day and reminds us that "the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world."
www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.com
www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org
www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org
Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy speaks to us about his books recently made available in the second edition on Amazon: "All Things Flee Thee for Thou Fleest Me" and "Just War Theory: The Logic of Deceit".
Additional topics include: Tradition vs. tradition in the Catholic Church; orthodox vs. heterodox beliefs; authority; conscience; and what a person who has the leisure to study owes to the rest of humanity.
For more information about the author, go to:
www.emmanuelcharlesmccarthy.org
www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org
You can listen to the lecture series "Behold the Lamb" for free at:
https://www.centerforchristiannonviolence.org/resources/audio-files
Find us at:
www.catholicsagainstmilitarism.com