3/18/2010
Salvation involves more than appeal to get along
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Letter to the Editor
To the Sentinel:
Rolando Rodriguez writes to state that “There is no such thing as a ‘just war’ or an ‘unjust war.’”
Sorry, but as you yourself state, The Catechism of the Catholic Church says that there is such a thing as just and unjust war.
The Catechism further states that those who serve in the military are “. . . servants of the security and freedom of nations,” and that the determination of whether a conflict meets the standards of a just war belongs to the prudential judgement of those who are responsible for the common good, i.e., government authorities.
This is not to say that war is good or desirable.
War is an evil that results from sin, according to the Epistle of St. James (4:1,2).
A chaplain once said that “If we’re not going to war with a tear in our eyes and our hearts broken, we aren’t coming at it from the right place.”
And Jesus did not come to merely teach us to live in peace. That is a fruit—often rare— of the salvation won for us by our Savior in, what the sequence for Easter calls, “that combat stupendous.”
Our salvation is so much more than just an appeal to get along.
Randolph Raetz
Vancouver, Wash.
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