Anarcho-Catholicism

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But violence breeds violence. Those who turn to it always believe that a little more violence will put an end to the cycle, but they only forge the chain. When the church tells us to choose life—in the womb, in our justice systems, in the way that we solve our problems—there are those who would insist that this mustard seed will never grow.
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americamagazine.org/content/good-word/churchills-choice

An interesting blanket condemnation of violence. Sounds very familiar.

Is Father Klein advancing a theory of anarcho-catholicism?
 
Why are these ideas familiar? Could you be a bit more specific? Thanks.
 
Gallico said:
Why are these ideas familiar? Could you be a bit more specific? Thanks.
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When I hear people railing uncategorically about “state-sanctioned violence” it’s usually anarchists of some sort or another. If all violence is wrong, even violence designed to further justice, that’s prety much the definition of anarchism (not to be confused with anarchy).
 
edwest2 said:
I prefer the Monty Python version. And no. Catholics don’t promote anarcho-anything.
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I think you mean’t to say Catholics aren’t supposed to promote anarcho-anything.

But who are we to question a Jesuit priest.
 
Presumably, all wars are state-sanctioned violence. Would anyone argue that Hitler should not have been opposed? Would anyone argue that there was some way of opposing him that was non-violent?

Who’s the Jesuit, by the way? Is Father Terrance Klein a Jesuit? That would surprise me, somehow.
 
Gallico said:
Presumably, all wars are state-sanctioned violence. Would anyone argue that Hitler should not have been opposed? Would anyone argue that there was some way of opposing him that was non-violent?

Who’s the Jesuit, by the way? Is Father Terrance Klein a Jesuit? That would surprise me, somehow.
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The publication is definitely Jesuit and I think I saw somewhere that the author is a Jesuit priest.

Why surprised?
 
Why surprised? I don’t know; after a quick first reading of the piece I thought it was a bit simplistic. And I’ve always been led to believe that Jesuits are bright, well-educated, and – well, jesuitical. It just seemed to me that to argue against violence while using an example from WWII – maybe the only really “necessary” war in history (but I don’t know much history) – was not very sophisticated.
 
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