safe and secure

People and nation-states do have the right to safety and security. A certain degree of it is necessary for psychological, economic and human growth. But that is quite different from the overarching and overbearing need that now seems to dominate all other human concerns. What allows us to think that food, housing, education, welfare, ecology, medicine, aesthetics, the animal and plant world, wisdom, family and holiness are all supposed to be put on hold until American people can feel absolutely secure and victorious?

It is spiritually destructive for the individual, and it is equally destructive for the collective. Until Catholicism recovers its great medieval synthesis, until it again sees itself as preaching the gospel to the nations (Matthew 28:19), until it again acts as the corporate conscience and not just the comforter of private lives, we will surely continue to lose our moral credibility and moral leadership.

Richard Rohr- Radical Grace, “Why Deterrence Is Death”