Choosing Peace

"Marie Dennis invites us into a discussion among seasoned practitioners of Gospel nonviolence, calling the Church to take the Gospel seriously. These accounts of nonviolent living in oppressive and violent situations may even convince you that there's hope for the world!" --Shelley Douglass, Mary's House, Birmingham, AL "As The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moves its clock to two minutes before midnight, what could be more timely than this account of Pope Francis' effort to return Catholic teaching to Gospel Nonviolence? We can only hope the teaching will take hold quickly." --Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton"Highly recommended for university and personal libraries and supplemental reading in courses on war and peace and Catholic social teaching." --Catholic Books Review In recent years the Catholic Church's approach to issues of war and peace has refocused on the tradition of nonviolence and peacebuilding in place of the traditional framework of Just War teaching. Among the milestones was