A LIFE-LINE

I would like to say as simply as I know how, to other Christians, that I’m convinced that in our lifetime we have no contribution to make to one another or to the world at large except a modest and consistent NO to death. Our churches can go tomorrow, our schools could have been closed yesterday, our institutions ground under by the next wave of tanks or the next phalanx of violence. And what will remain of Christianity except that we have said audibly and consistently and patiently over our lifetime: “We are not allowed to kill. We are not allowed to be complicit in killing. We are not allowed to commit the crime of silence before these things.”

~ Daniel Berrigan, SJ