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Without a national call to repentance, one can only do what one can do. So this Thanksgiving I will indeed thank God for our nation's efforts to root out violent enemies without and within. I will remember "orphans, widows, mourners and sufferers" who have suffered at the hands of terrorists. I will pray that evildoers who murder the innocent will be brought to temporal and divine justice.

But I will also remember that I too, in my own way, am an evildoer, guilty of "perverseness and disobedience" on many levels. And I'll ask God for the grace and courage to be a more faithful disciple of Jesus Christ and, as part of that discipleship, a better citizen of this glorious and sinful nation.

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November 18 2002, Vol. 46, No. 12