The Archdiocese of Seoul may launch a cause for the beatification of Thomas An Jung-geun, a Korean Catholic who assassinated the Japanese prime minister when Korea was under Japanese rule. The assassin “acted in righteous defense of the nation,” the late Cardinal Stephen Kim Sou-hwan said of the 1909 killing. “The Catholic Church does not regard killing committed to defend the nation from unjust aggression as a crime.”
Ping for later.
3 posted on 09/30/2011 6:09:57 PM PDT by Alex Murphy
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2703506/posts?page=518#518)
