Some chaplains have seen and ministered to so many dying or badly wounded soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan they themselves have become casualties.

"To know that someone is there, that someone that comes from home to take care of you makes a tremendous difference for our warriors," says Judith Markelz, director of the Warrior and Family Support Center in San Antonio.

“The people who are paying the costs, military families, veterans, civilians in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan—those people deserve to have their story told,” says Professor Catherine Lutz of Brown University.

Watch excerpts from our conversation with the director of policy studies at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies on ethical and moral issues at stake in the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

We review some of the week's leading religion news stories, from deadly riots in Afghanistan over the burning of a Quran at a Florida church to the morality of the budget to a church-state decision from the Supreme Court.

"Does the public really understand in a deep way what the moral burdens of war are? I don't think so," says philosopher, ethicist, and psychoanalyst Nancy Sherman.

"The individual soldier often feels not that he or she is broken, but that the world itself is broken, and there is no easy fix for a broken world," writes US Navy Commander Greg Parker.

"Soldiers carry all the moral weight of war, and we carry very little, and we need to share that moral burden by realizing that they are our surrogates," says the author of "The Untold War: Inside the Hearts, Minds, and Souls of Our Soldiers."

"To do the war on the cheap and not hold us all accountable for the decisions that are made is a travesty," says this New York National Guard state chaplain.

"It's like you don't really know your spirit until it's been damaged. We don't really have a consciousness of our own spirit until it's wounded, and then it needs help," says Michael Abbatello, who served in Afghanistan as a rifleman in a Marine Corps infantry line unit.