Social Policy Review

The Tablet, January 12, 2022 by John Lavenburg PROSPECT HEIGHTS — Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe says he vividly remembers a somber day on a 2017 trip to Japan where he heard the story of school children rushing to their classroom windows on an August day in 1945, attracted by the bright light of an atomic bomb detonating. “One could only imagine their fate,” Archbishop Wester said. This story and others like it, along with the presence of two weapons laboratories and the nation’s largest nuclear weapons depository in New Mexico, prompted him to take a lead in calling for nuclear disarmament around the world. On Jan. 11, Archbishop Wester published a pastoral letter, “Living in the Light of Christ’s Peace: A Conversation Toward Nuclear Disarmament.” At a news conference ahead of the letter’s release, he called the nuclear arms race a “vicious spiral that prompts progressively destabilizing actions and reactions by all parties including our own country.” “We can no longer deny or ig...

  JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters , James W. Douglass,  Orbis Books, April 30, 2008.     This November 22, will be the sixtieth anniversary of JFK’s assassination. The world is still asking questions about this tragedy. More information on this event remains top secret and will not be opened to the public unless ordered by the sitting President of the United States. However, the following author provides an intriguing approach to laying out a new context for understand the possible figures involved in the assassination of JFK. James Douglass, in JFK and the Unspeakable , gets straight to the point by arguing that JFK was an existential threat to the military-industrial-complex and its mega profit industry. He was scuttling their communist conspiracy world view which justified the post-WWII massive military expansion. The panic set in, quickly, with people such as the Director of the CIA, Alan Dulles, and General Curtis LaMay, Chief of St...