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GEORGIA BULLETIN. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1968 1 3
Role Of Post-Viet Christian
Is Peacemaker-Shannon
NOTRE DAME, Ind. (NCV-
A bishop asserted here the basic
role of Christians in the
post-Vietnam war society should
be that of committed
peacemakers.
Auxiliary Bishop James P.
Shannon of St. Paul and
Minneapolis, a frequent critic of
U.S. involvement in the Vietnam
war, deplored “an historic
erosion of the Christian
convention that war is evil and
peace is a Christian vocation.”
The 46-year-old bishop was
invited several months ago to
preach in Sacred Heart church at
the University of Notre Dame on
“Vietnam and the Christian
Conscience” as part of the
university’s “Year of Faith”
Masses observance.
Bishop Shannon began his
sermon (May 5) by noting
President Johnson’s peace efforts
“drastically qualified the climate
of opinion.” and announced the
theme of his sermon would be
“Christ, Peace and War.”
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“Fifteen centuries of
nationalistic jockeying for
position on the world’s track
have badly compromised our
original clear vision of ourselves
as God’s peacemakers,” Bishop
Shannon told some 1,000
worshippers.
Recalling the many instances
of Christian justification and
support of war efforts, Bishop
Shannon said the spectre of
nuclear power“has forced man the
realist to see that the words of
the gentle Christ do make sense
after all.”
Man must seek peace by
peaceful means, simply because
the alternative is now literally
unthinkable, except to a few
politicians who would drop just a
few tactical nuclear bombs...just
a few,” he said.
“Like children, we play at
intermediate war,” the bishop
said. “We kill and cut and blind
and maim with old savage
weapons, because we are both
too smart and too timid to follow
the principles of war to their
ultimate conclusions in the
nuclear age.”
The realist, the bishop said,
has come full circle to the
realization that warfare cannot
solve the ultimate questions and
“the wisdom of experience in
human history concurs with the
earlier simple direction of the
beatitudes of Christ.”
He praised the establishment
of the Pontifical Commission for
Peace and Justice “as a new arm
of the Church to show the
fallacy of armed warfare as an
instrument of peace or even of
order in society.”
• “To question the premises of
modern nationalism in the United
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Bishop Shannon said
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every age,” and criticized what he
considered to he an
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peace in the United States.
“1 often feel,” he said, “that
our current skimpy theology of
peace and war owes more to the
slogans of the American Legion
than to the original teachings of
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