Pax Christi Minnesota

Thoughts from Tim Haskamp…

Thomas Merton, in his book Peace in the Post-Christian Era, speaks of the crisis of the spirit and the “moral upheaval of the human race that has lost its religious and cultural roots.” In our desire to destroy evil, we search for a simple solution and suddenly become that which we are trying to destroy. We lose sight of truth and our deep moral obligation for life. We alienate ourselves from truth and the “springs of spiritual life and God.” It is our fear that causes us to lose perspective.

It is our faith that must encourage us not to become what we are hoping to destroy.