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Mark C. N. Sullivan is an editor at a Massachusetts university. He is married and the father of three children. Email
Tuesday, February 25, 2003 After – and beyond – the tide of pacifism: L'Espresso Online carries an essay by Pietro De Marco on the Church and Iraq: The Catholic Church, to which I culturally and personally belong, and which I love, could also be weakened by declaring illegitimate the disciplinary function of the United States. It would be weakened at least in its power to guide the faithful. This power, in fact, as shown by its history under the totalitarian autocracies of the twentieth century, can be exercised only where the Church itself is exempt from constraints and systematic blackmail, constraints that are fully present in all the non-democratic areas of the world. #
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