Pace e Bene – 15 August 2025

“What we need in the present crisis is creative imagination, not parity in military force, euphemistically called ‘peace through strength.’ We need the Prayer of St. Francis raised to the level of a political power, the power of reconciliation. . . . On the personal level we need to see the links between peacemaking in our homes and in our neighborhoods, and what goes on in the great arenas of decision-making which can impose death or new possibilities of life for millions.”—Sr. Mary Evelyn Jegen, SND, The Pacifist Vision