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Article: U.S. bishops on war against terrorism. (United States).(Brief Article)
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- Catholic Insight
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Washington--In the Saskatchewan Prairie Messenger, October 17, Father Laurence DeMong ridiculed the kind of rhetoric used by Americans in their response to the horrors of September 11. "But if I must," he wrote, "I would give the prize for most pharisaical to President George W. Bush for his talk of 'their evil plans,' 'the barbaric criminals,' 'We're a peaceful nation...that sends sons and daughters into battle only after the greatest care and a lot of prayers."'
A week later, in a letter to the paper, Hank Zyp of Edmonton fumed, "I read with absolute dismay the pious platitudes of the U.S. cardinals, supporting the massive aerial attacks on Afghanistan. Who are ...