Professor Maguire

On this 40 anniversary of the Apollo Moon Landing it is only right and just that we received today a response from a Marquette University professor of Moral theology on our 40 year old battle to resist military training and teaching on the Marquette University Campus.

A few weeks ago we had sent a Letter to Teachers of Morality and Ethics at Marquette University. Today we received a Statement about the military on the Marquette University Campus by Professor Daniel Maguire of the Theology Department at Marquette.

A friend learning of this response congratulated me and said how it was my issue. I wrote thanking her for her praise but said that teaching moral values of peace and justice at Marquette was not ‘my’ issue or any group’s issue. It was the work and struggle of many persons over 40 years to get this one response from a well respected moral theologian at Marquette. I said that personalizing the issues was what the “powers that be” desire to keep us divided and how it was only when we work together, as some of us did on this issue, that we can move forward in making the Kingdom of God on earth. I am sure it was not what the person wanted to hear but I had to say it.

Tonight Marna, Dawn and I all worked together on the DMZ Community Garden. Two of the three of us, with others, had worked on the DMZ garden many times. But it felt good for all three of us to be working together. Growing Power says “Together we are growing; power” and I say together we are the power of peace. Thanks to Dr. Maguire’s response we took one small step for mankind.

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