Work for Peace Everywhere
Posted by Arwen Mosher in News on Tuesday, October 13, 2009 10:15 PM
Last Friday I was listening to Teresa Tomeo’s morning show, and they were talking about President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize win.
From a political perspective there are plenty of things to say on this topic, but I think most of them have already been covered on the thousands of political blogs out there.
Teresa Tomeo’s guest was Janet Morana of Priests for Life and Silent No More, and I loved the tack they were taking on the show. They did discuss the political implications of the Nobel committee’s choice, but moved from there to the crux of the issue: what, if anything, should we do about it?
There is room in the Catholic Church for a large range of opinions on political issues, but there is no room for debate on life issues. Whatever we as individual Catholics might think of our president’s foreign policy, we cannot approve of his actions in support of unborn children being killed in the womb.
On Teresa Tomeo’s show, Janet Morana suggested that we use Obama’s award as an opportunity for pro-life witness. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, and she is famed for saying that there would be no peace on earth until there is peace in the womb. In fact, in her Nobel Lecture after she received the award, she said, “the greatest destroyer of peace is abortion” and talked about the importance of loving the unborn.
At work or school, especially with those who are not pro-life, Morana suggested that we use the topic of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize as a chance to bring the discussion around to the topic of Mother Teresa and her devotion to the unseen ones, and to the meaning of true peace. Whether we think he deserves it or not, our president’s Nobel award gives us a chance to work harder for the protection and sanctity of all human life.
I like that idea.
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