Father John Dear, SJ, a well known Catholic ultra pacifist, is apparently going to speak at the schismatic Spiritus Christi tomorrow.

Here are some of his thoughts:

We must demand that our country stop military aid to Colombia and the Philippines; close our own terrorist training camps, like the School of Americas in Georgia, as well as the CIA, NSA, and the Pentagon. Leave the World Trade Organization and lift the entire Third World debt…It’s all about Bush and Cheney’s goal to control Iraq’s oil fields, at any price, to gain financial control of the world economy. We bombed every single major building in Baghdad except for the Ministry of Oil. We have an imperial economy based entirely on oil and weapons, and to maintain this empire, we have to wage war and wars require the blood of children, the blood of Christ…And we maintain this imperial military, economy to support a handful of corporate billionaires and their generals with the necessary requirements of ongoing war, creating enemies and victims, and keeping the American people indifferent and passive…I think we live in an empire which is bringing war, starvation, poverty and death to the world, and that instead of fulfilling its vocation to resist the empire through Gospel nonviolence, the church has become actively involved in the empire and its wars. This is our history, from the just war to the crusades to the countless bishops who supported Hitler and Marcos and DuValier and Somoza to the priests who bless nuclear weapons at Los Alamos and the bombing of children in Iraq…And through our silence, the church has developed a spirituality of war which says that violence saves us, might makes right, God blesses war, nuclear weapons are our true security, and the good news is not love of enemies but the elimination of enemies.

Sounds like Father Dear doesn’t care much for our country or the Church. Perhaps that is why he was invited to speak at Spiritus Christi.

See Lee Strong’s web site for more information.