Patrick Clark is troubled, from a Catholic perspective, by the celebrations of bin Laden's death:
[S]hould we be comfortable with the utter absence of any public expression (or even the possibility of any public expression) of forgiveness for the crimes that were committed against our citizens? Shouldn’t this bother us as Christians? Surely part of Augustine’s claim that killing another person can in fact be an act of charity is the supposition that one can and should forgive the enemy which one must, regretably, kill. Is there any way we as a nation could ever incorporate an expression of forgiveness into such acts of “justice” as those ordered and carried out on this Divine Mercy Sunday?
As a nation? No. We cannot expect all Americans to adopt one of the hardest of Jesus's teachings: that we must not just forgive but love our worst enemies. But those of us who are Christians are required to try.
The Dish 