Monsignor Bruce Kent

Just catching up on today's news and came across Msgr. Bruce Kent's obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-kent-obituary

He maybe won't be a name familiar to most folk under forty but at his peak he was a huge figure in the disarmament movement and in some respects his belief and works were an Anglo-Catholic form of radical socialism that seemed to have more in common with liberation theology than the English tradition.

It does make me curious as to how he would have ftted in to the world now - a lot of the same concerns but vastly different ways of co-ordinating and coalescing opinion and dissent.

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Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye

Just catching up on today's news and came across Msgr. Bruce Kent's obituary

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...-kent-obituary

He maybe won't be a name familiar to most folk under forty but at his peak he was a huge figure in the disarmament movement and in some respects his belief and works were an Anglo-Catholic form of radical socialism that seemed to have more in common with liberation theology than the English tradition.

It does make me curious as to how he would have ftted in to the world now - a lot of the same concerns but vastly different ways of co-ordinating and coalescing opinion and dissent.

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He was a principled man of his time.
There was no doubting his beliefs and convictions. Perhaps he would be pleasantly surprised that that which he protested about has kept us all safe for many decades.
The irony.

Sad to learn that he's passed on. He was giving talks and touring until fairly recently (pre-covid anyway). A very principled man.

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Originally Posted by pollution

He was a principled man of his time.
There was no doubting his beliefs and convictions. Perhaps he would be pleasantly surprised that that which he protested about has kept us all safe for many decades.
The irony.

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Without wanting to open a can of worms, there's certainly an argument to say that the one major reason the people of Ukraine have been blown to smithereens over the last few months is that other countries won't challenge Russia because they have these "deterrents". Essentially all they're deterring is stopping Russia blowing the **** out of countries through other means.

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Originally Posted by G15 Hibs

Without wanting to open a can of worms, there's certainly an argument to say that the one major reason the people of Ukraine have been blown to smithereens over the last few months is that other countries won't challenge Russia because they have these "deterrents". Essentially all they're deterring is stopping Russia blowing the **** out of countries through other means.

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Or Ukraine wouldn't have been touched if it kept its nukes. I wish there was away to get rid of them, but realistically I can't see it