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Article: PEACE BE WITH YOU: JUSTIFIED WARFARE OR THE WAY OF NONVIOLENCE.(Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 30, 1999
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A fellow peacemaker once asked Dorothy Day if she could produce a "clear, theoretical, logical pacifist manifesto." In more than three decades of leading the Catholic Worker movement, she couldn't do it.
Day could only describe the personal transformation that alone can break ageold cycles of violence: "Unless we use the weapons of the spirit, denying ourselves and taking up our cross and following Jesus, dying with him and rising with him, men will go on fighting, and often from the highest motives, believing they are fighting defensive wars for justice and self-defense against present or future aggression."
In effect, Day's answer was to offer herself ...