Leslie Stahl: “We have heard that half a million children have died [as a result of the U.S. economic sanctions against Iraq]. I mean, that is more children than died…
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For the world’s poor, the reality of life is the same everywhere. It is a daily struggle against death. That struggle is nearly always a losing battle. Poverty, hunger, disease,…
On the edge of Guatemala city , Guatemala 's capital of two million people, one-quarter of the nation's population, stands a monument to poverty. A luscious green valley has been…
Peacemaking, to paraphrase Dostoyevsky, is "a harsh and dreadful thing." This week, I'm flying to Kabul, Afghanistan, on a long-planned, hopeful yet modest mission of peace. I've been looking for…
It’s Christmas day and I’m in Galway on the west coast of Ireland, staying with my friend Terry Howard, SJ and the Jesuit community, after visiting other Jesuit friends in…
In Seattle on Thursday night, I spoke about Jesus' Sermon on the Mount commendation-Blessed are the peacemakers. Jesus was a peacemaker, I declared, and anyone who claims to be a…
"We citizens have to take the future of our country into our own hands. There's no one to solve the problems of our country and our world anymore except us."…