Concerning your interview; personally, I was in complete agreement. I am so exhausted from listening to our church leaders and political leaders teach our children in public schools and in our Churches that we deserve to be attacked, if not that, then, we are only supposed to turn the other cheek. In the traditional Catholic teachings, we wete taught honor and respect and stand up for tradition, family and property, and that doesn't mean just turning the other cheek, it means being the finest army in the world - like the israel - were and are. Catholic communities understood this, and that is why we were the finest soldiers in the world.
