I Never Met A Jesuit Before I

I'd Like To Die With My Boots On.

We Have One Of Our Priests In Prison Right Now For His Antiwar Actions, And Three Of Us In The Community Are Forbidden To Visit Him Because We're All Convicted Felons.

Most Americans Would Agree That Plowshares Is A Theatre Of The Absurd.

Every Nation-state Tends Towards The Imperial - That Is The Point. Through Banks, Armies, Secret Police, Propaganda, Courts And Jails, Treaties, Taxes, Laws And Orders, Myths Of Civil Obedience, Assumptions Of Civic Virtue At The Top. Still It Should Be Said Of The Political Left, We Expect Something Better. And Correctly. We Put More Trust In Those Who Show A Measure Of Compassion, Who Denounce The Hideous Social Arrangements That Make War Inevitable And Human Desire Omnipresent; Which Fosters Corporate Selfishness, Panders To Appetites And Disorder, Waste The Earth.

But How Shall We Educate Men To Goodness, To A Sense Of One Another, To A Love Of Truth? And More Urgently, How Shall We Do This In A Bad Time?