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Article: U.S. cardinals support military response. (Nation).(United States)(Brief Article)
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- National Catholic Reporter
- Article date:
- October 19, 2001
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American cardinals, speaking separately, have given measured support for the retaliatory strikes launched by American and British forces against military targets and suspected terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
"This is a just war," declared Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George, "not a holy war or a war of religions." In an Oct. 9 statement from Rome, where he was attending the Synod of Bishops, he asked God to "help us to overcome war and violence and to establish your law of love and justice."
Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick called the military campaign a "necessary response" but one he prayed would not take innocent life and would be guided by ...