Opposing Unjust War.

This page has links to the my commentary and work on the Afghanistan and Iraq War issues going back to 1998. It includes all of my responses to the poor response of the U.S. bishops to these unjust wars. There is some material missing from 1999-2001, due to the non-availability of the archives of the Catholic justice and peace listservs which I moderated at www.cin.org , but most of the rest of it is here. (If anyone happens to have any emails saved from cinjustann in that period, please email me at robert@justpeace.org I have also included links to the statements of the Catholic Worker movement about the war, Bishop Botean's declaration of the injustice of the Iraq War, and Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy's essay on moral law and the Iraq war, all of which have been influential in the development of my thoughts on these issues. RMW

Open Letter to Archbishop Piero Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, Feast of Corpus Christi, 2008

Open Letter to H.E. Francis Cardinal George, OMI, Archbishop of Chicago, March 2008

NCR and the Iraq War, September 2007

A Dark Day for the Church in the US (on the appointment of Archbishop O'Brien to the see of Baltimore). July 2007

Dear Catholic Bishops, part of the Letters from Osama series. Postcard version, suitable for mailing. Flyer version, suitable for copying and distributing. June 2007

Lent 2007 OKC Catholic Worker Newspaper, articles Response to the US Bishops Statements, 2006-2007, Bishops Destroy the Church's Witness to Life,

2006 National CW Statement to the US Bishops

Response to Stephen Colecchi November 2006

Moral Law and the Iraq War, by Fr. Emmanuel McCarthy

Response to the "Call for Dialogue and Action on Responsible Transition in Iraq," from Bishop William Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, November 2006

Liturgy and War and the US Catholic Bishops Feast of St. Benedict, 2006

The Errors of Michael Novak: A critique of the Catholic neo-conservatives support for the Iraq War, revised and updated from the two 2003 essays on the same subject. Summer 2006

Does the end justify the means? Lent 2005

Daily prayers in time of war, Lent 2005

Prayer to Dorothy Day for the people of Iraq, January 2005

More errors of Michael Novak and others regarding the war on Iraq, February 2003

The Errors of Michael Novak , Feb 2003

What would Jesus do with Iraq? Fall 2002

Open Letter to the US Bishops regarding the morality of our nation's war on the people of Afghanistan, Holy Innocents 2001

Eleven Concerns about the Justice of the Afghanistan War, November 2001

Lenten Message of Bishop John Michael Botean, Eparchy of St. George in Canton for the Romanians, declaring the Iraq War to be unjust. March 7,. 2003

Just War and the Iraqi Escalation February 1998

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