Last Tuesday, the U.S. Bishops’ Conference gathered at the Marriott in Baltimore. There they were invited to a dinner hosted by U.S. military chaplains. This piqued my curiosity, so I…

This weekend, Barack Obama just freshly elected, I joined 2,500 Catholics at the annual Call to Action conference in Milwaukee. A spirit of hope hovered in the air. And in…

What a boost it was to spend All Saints' Day in Boston, just before the election, with hundreds of Pax Christi friends, all of us reflecting on the Sermon on…

A few months ago, I received a surprising and moving email from Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a military lawyer who has been prosecuting detainees at Guantanmo for over a year.…

This week I spoke about A Persistent Peace, my just published autobiography, in Portland, Berkeley, Burlingame, Santa Cruz, Los Angeles and Phoenix. And at each gathering folks lamented the economic…

This week, I’ve been speaking in Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Montana and Oregon about the life of peace and my autobiography, “A Persistent Peace.” Everywhere I go, someone asks, “Are you…

This week I embarked on a ten-week national book tour to discuss my autobiography, A Persistent Peace, and to promote Gospel nonviolence. In the months ahead, I’ll report here what…

“Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows,” Martin Luther King, Jr. once said. In the days after September 11, 2001, relatives of those who died in the attacks…

In 2001, the U.N. General Assembly declared September 21 “International Day of Peace.” The declaration called for “a day of global ceasefire and nonviolence,” for everyone to promote education and…

(Note: For your summer reading, I offer here for a few weeks excerpts from my autobiography, “A Persistent Peace,” just published from Loyola Press. Here, I tell about my 1985…