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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.)

Are you interested in war and peace? Do you want to read one of the greatest literary works of Western civilization with the support of a live class -- and the accountability that comes with it? This summer, put down your phone and tackle some serious reading with us! Ellen is teaching a live class on The Iliad. There will be so many themes we'll be discussing that will allow us to really examine and ponder more deeply the major topics that are discussed on this channel, but this time through poetry, not podcasting. Hope you can join us!

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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!

Are you interested in war and peace? Do you want to read one of the greatest literary works of Western civilization with the support of a live class -- and the accountability that comes with it? This summer, put down your phone and tackle some serious reading with us! Ellen is teaching a live class on The Iliad. There will be so many themes we'll be discussing that will allow us to really examine and ponder more deeply the major topics that are discussed on this channel, but this time through poetry, not podcasting. Hope you can join us!

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An essay written by Ellen in 2015, originally published on LewRockwell.com.
Original essay: https://www.lewrockwell.com/2015/04/e...

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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!

Are you interested in war and peace? Do you want to read one of the greatest literary works of Western civilization with the support of a live class -- and the accountability that comes with it? This summer, put down your phone and tackle some serious reading with us! Ellen is teaching a live class on The Iliad. We're going to have great conversations about human nature, religion, war, peace, pagans, Catholics, love and loss. There will be so many themes we'll be discussing that will allow us to really examine and ponder more deeply the major topics that are discussed on this channel, but this time through poetry, not podcasting. Hope you can join us!

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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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Featured song/video: "Away in Bomb Shelters" by Martin Kerr
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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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