Thomas Merton on Moral Chaos, and “the worst insanity” (below).

Thomas Merton: Nuclear Weapons and Sanity:

“The generals and fighters on both sides, in World War II, the ones who carried out the total destruction of entire cities, these were the sane ones. Those who have invented and developed atomic bombs, thermonuclear bombs, missiles; who have planned the strategy of the next war; who have evaluated the various possibilities of using bacterial and chemical agents: these are not the crazy people, they are the sane people.

“The ones who coolly estimate how many millions of victims can be considered expendable in a nuclear war, I presume they do all right with the Rorschach ink blots too. On the other hand, you will probably find that the pacifists and the ban-the-bomb people are, quite seriously, just as we read in Time, a little crazy. I am beginning to realize that “sanity” is no longer a value or an end in itself.

“The “sanity” of modern man is about as useful to him as the huge bulk and muscles of the dinosaur. If he were a little less sane, a little more doubtful, a little more aware of his absurdities and contradictions, perhaps there might be a possibility of his survival.

“But if he is sane, too sane … perhaps we must say that in a society like ours the worst insanity is to be totally without anxiety, totally “sane.” — Raids on the Unspeakable

Pope Francis Quotes

“When we allow ourselves to be devoured by this monster represented by war, when we allow this monster to raise its head and guide our actions, everyone loses, we destroy God’s creatures, we commit sacrilege and prepare a future of death for our children and grandchildren,” he wrote.

“The Holy See has no doubt that a world free from nuclear weapons is both necessary and possible,” Pope Francis added. “In a system of collective security, there is no place for nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.”

“Trying to defend and ensure stability and peace through a false sense of security and a ‘balance of terror,’ sustained by a mentality of fear and mistrust, inevitably ends up poisoning relationships between peoples and obstructing any possible form of real dialogue,” Pope Francis wrote.

“Possession leads easily to threats of their use, becoming a sort of ‘blackmail’ that should be repugnant to the consciences of humanity.” And unspeakably dangerous.

— Bishop Fulton J. Sheen: Hiroshima and Obliteration Bombing

— Holy Office head Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani: No Conceivable Justification

— America dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016 alone. What a bloody end to Obama’s reign

—Benedict XVI writes about ‘inner drama of being a Christian’ in new letter

— Elizabeth Warren War on Crisis Pregnancy Centers Continues With New Accusations

— Jordan Peterson: “It’s not that you love the earth. It’s that you hate humanity”.

“Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you.” -–St. Thomas Aquinas

“Let the lowly brother boast in his exaltation, and the rich in his humiliation, because like the flower of the grass he will pass away.”— James 1:9,10