Charles Colson has devoted the last twenty years to ministering prison inmates. Magnificent act of charity! But lately he has warmed up to the idea of killing people as an act of charity. “The failure to fight a just war may be a failure to love.” He invokes ST. Thomas Aquinas in defense of his argument. “Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologica puts his discussion of just war in his chapter on charity—the love of God and neighbor. Aquinas applauded those who wielded the sword in protection of the community.” Wow, that’s just too misleading. St. Thomas is not saying … Continue reading Must We Always Kill the One We love?