August 7, 2007
Transfiguration and The Bomb
Don Jim has a good post up on the Transfiguration and the moral teaching of the Church on the atom bomb. Of course, he is right, and even I have to admit that the indiscriminate bombing of London by the Luftwaffe was probably morally wrong. The Church doesn't mention the English by name, though...
Posted by erik at August 7, 2007 9:36 AMI don't get that either. It would seem that you make a man a pastor of a small number of souls before entrusting a diocese to him. But, since I don't make those decisions, and those who do don't come to me for advice (probably a good thing), I don't worry too much about it.
Posted by: Erik Keilholtz at August 13, 2007 1:20 AMCardinal Rigali wrote a piece on this that was rather mealy-mouthed, though it ultimately made the same point.
Part of the problem is that Rigali doesn't write well, though I understand he was once a translator at the Vatican. On an unrelated matter-he was never a pastor, which is oddly typical of bishops, at least of those who head dioceses or archdioceses. What's the deal with that?
Posted by: John Salmon at August 12, 2007 10:26 AM