Going without God
Tuesday, March 18th, 2003An American Catholic bishop has forbidden his flock from participating in the war against Iraq, on pain of mortal sin. Bishop John Michael Botean, head of the diocese of St. George in Canton, Ohio, said in his lent address that a military assault on Iraq does not fit the criteria of the just-war tradition. “Thus,” he argued, “any killing associated with it is unjustified and, in consequence, unequivocally murder.”
