The silence of our entire Church about the use of one state's national guard to occupy and pacify cities in other states is scandalous.
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I point us all back to Pope Pius XI's 1937 encyclical Mit brennender sorge, denouncing the German religious nationalism propping up its aggressive suppression of dissent as “the so-called myth of race and blood.”
I call on our faith to have a point of view, proactively and not retrospectively. When troops from another state invade and pacify a city to quell dissent against a strongman leader, what does Christ have to say? What does he call us to say and do?
Luke's Gospel in mass today likens the powers of this world to a strongman guarding his house, and Christ as the even stronger man who breaks in, plunders his house, and ends his power. (Luke 11:15-26)
So I ask you: does Jesus the Incarnate Word of God stand silently with authoritarian rule? As his living body, do we?
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