Fr Carl Kabat O.M.I. the man who was arrested this morning at a Weld County Missile Silo.
Fr Carl's statement to press
We are Fools and Clowns For The Holy One And Humanity's Sake.
I Father Carl Kabat O.M.I. come to this evil place today as a Roman Catholic priest, of fifty years, to show what insanity is in the ground here and other silos in our beautiful country.
President Barack Obama has stated, "As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act...So today I state clearly and with conviction America's commitment and desire to seek the peace and serenity of a world without nuclear weapons."
The Roman Catholic Church, of which I am a priest, at the close of its Vatican Council II in 1965 condemned nuclear bombs as a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY and are to be condemned unreservedly.
The World Council of Churches has proclaimed that "the manufacture, deployment or use of nuclear bombs is a CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY"
I support President Barack Obama's desire and have attempted to do my little bit in his effort.
The nuclear bomb that is in the ground here is more than 20 times more powerful that the atomic bombs we dropped on the Japanese. Each of those bombs killed more than 100,000 people. At lest twenty times that number totals more than 2 million people.
The Bible says in the words of Isaiah "They shall beat their spears into pruning hooks and their swords into plowshares".
May the Holy One have mercy on us for not doing so.
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I've gone on the record criticizing Fr. Kabat's approach to the liturgy. However, it would be unfair not to also express my quiet admiration for Fr. Cabat's stubborn adherance to the cause of innocent life.
No one should doubt that the billions of victims of the abortion holocaust would be matched in their numbers by a nuclear holocaust; and that billions would die in the space of a day.
The only person who comes to mind like him is Joan Andrews-Bell, the anti-abortion crusader who has spent years in jail defending innocent life.
In a quieter time it will be observed that the long line of recusants, from the time of St. Edmund Campion, to Fr. Pro in Mexico and Cardinal Minzenty in Hungary also includes the Frs. Berrigan, Mrs. Bell and Fr. Kabat.
We can parse all their acts and distinguish conservative heros from liberal heros if we want.
Nonetheless the image of the jailed priest who opposes the City of God to the City of Man is the image of our Church in this and the last century.
Fr. Cabat deserves our prayers and admiration if only for his lonely witness to the eventual meeting of Murphy's Law and the civilization destroying laws of nuclear physics.
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