Tragedy of War Starts at Home

After 43 years of struggling against the ROTC or teaching of war at Marquette University we finally had a brief meeting with the President of Marquette. However, when he was presented with the facts of the teachings of the Army contradicting Christian morality and the Gospel he consistently would not answer the questions we presented him. He kept saying he did not have enough information to give us a yes or no. He came in the meeting saying we did not agree and left saying we did not agree. Since when does basic the morality of putting military values over Christian moral values and conscience or teaching to kill without conscience is something a Catholic priest, president of Marquette University, a Catholic University, does not have enough knowledge.

Now we know our message has been ignored by Marquette leaders because they cannot offer a response. Some of us would not care much one way or another on these moral issues if the failure to uphold them was killing or injuring so many people throughout the world. As Father Ellucaria the Jesuit martyr in El Salvador said in 1985 about a university with ROTC: “They are killing my people.”

I know it is disturbing to hear how our silence about teaching war on campus is responsible for death and suffering of so many people around the world but what is the alternative? As I said today we have no choice but to break the silence and stop the War at Home.

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