Today was another sunny day working in the garden, and the garden yielded another bountiful harvest. Today’s harvest was green beans, tomatoes, eggplants and zucchini. These days each dinner I cook contains some vegetables from the garden as well as home grown herbs.

I noticed that a garden is never indifferent; the seeds and plants grow and produce or not. A garden blessed by nature and tilled by work of a person grows and produces food. A garden cursed by nature and neglected by humans dies and does not produce food.

Humans, however, unlike nature, can be indifferent. If fact these days being indifferent seems commonplace, especially when there are persons or issues we do not want to deal with. I am daily reminded of this quote:

A good example of this human indifference, even to moral and ethical issues by moral and ethical theologians, is the response or lack of it I got from seven moral theologians at Marquette University (MU) from my persistent efforts to ask them this question; “Is it moral or ethical for Marquette University to host military training on campus?” (See Debate Forum.)

One response was a promise of a response that never came. One was a misrepresentation of the issue with a statement that the person did not want to talk about it anymore. One was the Statement about Military on the Marquette University Campus by Dr Daniel Maguire. The other four moral theology professors ignored or were indifferent to my persistent efforts to have them answer the moral ethical question.

Hosting departments of the military that teach war and values contrary to Christian faith, I believe, is a moral and ethical issue of significance. I understand why MU moral theologians might not want to answer a question coming from me, someone they can easily ignore; but I do not understand how, with what they teach on moral issues and priority of conscience, they can be ‘indifferent’ to this moral issue.

Sadly moral theologians, unlike a garden, can be indifferent.

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