Sister Joan Chittister, FROM WHERE I STAND
Posted on Sep 28, 2009 - 11:51 AM
Joan Chittister, a Benedictine Sister of Erie, PA, and an international lecturer on topics of justice, peace, human rights, women’s issues, and contemporary spirituality in the Church and in society, writes a monthly column, “From Where I Stand,” in the National Catholic Reporter. This month Joan deals with the morality of torture itself and asks the question “What kind of country do we want to be?” In her article she asks, “What about the morality of torture itself? If it’s right now, was it not also right during the Inquisition? And if not, when does wrong become right? When it “works”? As in, breaks human beings into sniveling, groveling, catatonic imitations of human beings?”
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