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“How can you make people understand that militarization, even if it seems to provide more security, really is the provocation of war, continuous war.”
― Marie Dennis, Choosing Peace:The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel Nonviolence

“We believe that Francis’s spirituality embodies a convergence of mysticism, liberation theology, and prophetic evangelism that speak loudly to those contemporary Christians who long to do something about inequity and poverty, about consuming consumerism and driven emptiness.”
― Marie Dennis, St Francis and the Foolishness of God: Revised Edition

“such communities we join with scores of faith-filled women and men to live the great political and theological as ifs. Politically, we live as if our nation were true to its foundational documents of liberty and justice for all; as if people mattered in themselves and not for their economic or social status; as if consumerism and the shopping mall did not determine the meaning of our lives; as if our way of life were not dependent on fossil fuel; as if we were a sister nation among all the other countries of the world; as if right made might and not the other way around. Living out these as ifs in the midst of community creates a prophetic possibility at a local level, the space for modeling how things could be, ought to be, and one day will be. The characteristics of St. Francis’s communities on which we have been reflecting give us a blueprint for such as if living.”
― Marie Dennis, St Francis and the Foolishness of God: Revised Edition