[Dialogue] An interesting article

Janice Ulangca aulangca at stny.rr.com
Thu May 17 10:55:12 EDT 2007


CAC - Center for Action and Contemplation, Franciscan retreat place in New Mexico.  Rohr is fine, always goes deep, deep, knows spiritual disciplines & long Catholic traditions.  He and Jim Wallis did a conference that I and 2 colleagues from here attended in Jan. 2006 in D.C. on Spirituality and Politics.  Together some of the best of Christianity, in my opinion.
Janice

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jim Rippey 
  To: 'Colleague Dialogue' 
  Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 10:08 AM
  Subject: Re: [Dialogue] An interesting article


  Thank you, Jack Giles,  for the excellent article by Richard Rohr.  I was particularly impressed by his paragraph concerning our attitude toward Israel.  My great concern is that our failure to face this issue will inevitably ensnare us in a war with Iran.  And that, in my opinion, will be a horror far beyond that of Iraq.  But still, nearly all of Congress, and all the presidential hopefuls, have been cowed into silence about Israel and the Palestine because the powerful Israel lobby, AIPAC, is quick to attack them and it controls important campaign funding

   

  Here's the part to which I refer:  

   

  It is not just archetypal and Biblical images that are confronting us, but even popular movie images like War of the Worlds, King Kong, the Towering Inferno, and even Frankenstein where the monster one has created comes back to attack you. It is not easy for us Americans to admit that Manuel Noriega, Saddam Hussein, and now Ossama bin Laden were all terrorists of our own making. Is this historical truth something we are ready to look at? Is there any connection in this mysterious web of evil or is America totally above the evil that it says it hates?

   

  Is America ready to examine its rather one sided policy toward Israel? Why do they receive more foreign aid than any other country, and are often treated as if they were a 51st state? Only Israel is allowed to disregard their promises to us, violate the human rights of the Palestinians on a massive scale, and snub their nose at America whenever they wish. It is really quite amazing to all the world. We must know that there are understandable reasons why much of the Islamic and Arab world hates and mistrusts America. They are not stupid people. They are not angry without some real provocation, and this anger will not go away soon.

   

   

  Inidentally, I may be the only one who doesn't know.  But what is CAC?

   

  And thanks again.  Jim Rippey in sunny Bellevue, NE

   



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