“As global violence continues to threaten the lives and freedom of people around the world, Merton challenges us in his essay ‘The Christian in World Crisis,’ to remember that ‘it is a special obligation of the Christian, who, as a follower of Christ, must be a peacemaker.’ The vocation to peacemaking is not for a select few, but for all the baptized, who are exhorted by Christ himself to be instruments of peace in a world of violence.”
By Daniel P. Horan, National Catholic Reporter
https://www.ncronline.org/opinion/thomas-mertons-prophetic-message-still-needed-world-violence
