M. Diane Krantz

M. DIANE KRANTZ, associate professor of English at Weber State University, Ogden, Utah, was a Catholic nun for twenty-five years with the Apostles of the Sacred Heart. She holds a Ph.D. in medieval English literature from the University of California, Davis, and currently works for peace and justice through membership in the American Friends Society, Pax Christi, and Network.

In the Service of Peace, in the Defense of War: Reflections on War of a Liberal Catholic in Mormon Utah

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 1

Anxiety and frustration have accompanied my resistance to the second Bush war on Iraq. I feel such discontent partly because the Roman Catholic Church in Utah tends to be ultraconservative in theology and politics. While…