Newark Cardinal Joseph Tobin has launched an appeal to Catholics to voluntarily forgo their Second Amendment rights by refusing to bear arms.
“It’s true that we have a second amendment right to bear arms, but rights always involve responsibilities — in this case, the responsibility to protect the innocent and to secure public safety and good order,” the cardinal declares in a recent pastoral. “The mass shootings we are witnessing almost weekly now are a grave threat to the lives and well-being of all people.”
“Let’s voluntarily set aside our rights in order to witness the truth that only peace, and never violence, is the way to build a free society that is lived concretely in our homes, our neighborhoods, our communities, our nation and our world,” he writes. The voluntary self-restraint that I am calling for “will not solve the problem of gun violence all by itself, but it can help us change our culture from one that is obsessively focused on individuals’ rights to a society dedicated to ensuring the common good,” he writes.into U.S. politics, trashing then-President Donald Trump in an interview with a French Catholic newspaper and accusing Trump of appealing to the “dark side of Americans.
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