1. United States
2. Wisc.
3. Letter

I urge you to support a war powers resolution and stop the executive branch from taking us further down the path of endless war. We have seen all of this before, and it leads to suffering and death for millions. Please, for the love of God and humanity, do not let us become complicit in even more death. No more war. For lack of better words myself, I’d like to borrow the words of Pope Leo XIV. “Dear brothers and sisters, whether we have the gift of faith or feel we lack it, let us open ourselves to peace! Let us welcome it and recognize it, rather than believing it to be impossible and beyond our reach. Peace is more than just a goal; it is a presence and a journey. Even when it is endangered within us and around us, like a small flame threatened by a storm, we must protect it, never forgetting the names and stories of those who have borne witness to it. Peace is a principle that guides and defines our choices. Even in places where only rubble remains, and despair seems inevitable, we still find people who have not forgotten peace. Just as on the evening of Easter Jesus entered the place where his disciples were gathered in fear and discouragement, so too the peace of the risen Christ continues to pass through doors and barriers in the voices and faces of his witnesses. This gift enables us to remember goodness, to recognize it as victorious, to choose it again, and to do so together.”