“I sense there’s a readiness, even a hunger, among the grassroots, for the Gospel,” he continued. “But we give them crumbs instead of the meat of the Gospel. We treat the people as if they are not ready to think seriously about the heart of the gospel by neglecting to speak about the radical call of Jesus’ nonviolent love.
“So I’m sensing that the responsibility for the spiritual crisis we are facing in our culture rests with the leadership in the churches. We peace people focus much of our energy and attention on the structures which build weapons and wage war, and we need to do that, but we have not be ready to confront, question and challenge our brothers and sisters about our responsibility for the mythology that perpetuates war.”
— National Catholic Reporter, “Raising the question of peace outside churches of all faiths”(via catechumenate)
Found in Brooklyn by Jacob Arthur
Sometimes it’s the simple things that make me laugh, like a picture of a kitten that’s labelled as a puppy. (From Engrish.)
