War as a Judgment of God

This idea of war as a judgment of God upon us all is not a soft theme, but it is a needed theme. If we resent the suggestion that we as a nation are not all we ought to be before God, it is because we, too, have been blind to justice. It is not easy to convince a nation that denies sin that "the wages of sin is death"; it is not easy to convince a people that denies the distinction between right and wrong that they may be wrong; it is not easy to awaken a people whose morality is relative to totalitarian barbarians, that they may not be angels.
--Fulton J. Sheen, from A Declaration of Dependence (1941) pp. 90-93, collected in The Electronic Christian (1979) pp.244-245