Brennan Connelly reports the following statement against the war in Iraq was signed at the June fraternal gathering at Siena College and then sent to the White House:
In the Spirit of St. Francis of Assisi, we Franciscan friars support the immediate beginning of withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq.
Daniel Dwyer, Jerome Massimino, Francis Soucy, Kevin Downey, Mathew Conlin, Peter Fiore, Paul Sinnema, Brian Belanger, Sean O’Brien, Octavio Duran, Kevin Kriso, Brennan Connelly, Dominic Monti, William Beaudin, Daniel Riley, Michael Harlan, Linh Hoang and Michael Joyce.