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Article: Advent sermon calls for abandoning 'language of just war'.(NATION )(Bishop Gabino Zavala )
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- December 29, 2006
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In a Dec. 2 Advent homily, Los Angeles Bishop Gabino Zavala called on national leaders to abandon "the language of just war," and to "instead speak of peace."
Zavala, made his comments in the Caldwell Hall Chapel at The Catholic University of America at a Mass commemorating the 1980 martyrdom of the four U.S. churchwomen in El Salvador.
Zavala, who is the bishop president of Pax Christi USA, received enthusiastic applause when he said: "We believe that war--the war in Iraq, all wars--are contrary to the will of God for peace. Let us put behind us the language of war, the language of just war, the language of violence. Let us instead speak of peace, of ...