Everyone says, "I wonder what the Pope thinks of it?" How everyone turns to the Vatican for judgment, even though they do not seem to listen to the v… - Dorothy Day

We stand at the present time with the Communists, who are also opposing war.... The Sermon on the Mount is our Christian manifesto.

There is now all this patriotic indignation about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and Japanese expansionism in Asia. Yet not a word about American and European expansionism in the same area.... We must make a start. We must renounce war as an instrument of policy.... Even as I speak to you I may be guilty of what some men call treason.... You young men should refuse to take up arms. Young women tear down the patriotic posters. And all of you — young and old — put away your flags.

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.