(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 the beginnings…

As the election approaches, economies worsen, wars go on relentlessly, nukes are poised on alert, and hundreds of millions starve and die in poverty, it’s clear what’s at stake --…

(Note: For your summer reading, I offer here for a few weeks excerpts from my autobiography, “A Persistent Peace,” published last week from Loyola Press, beginning here with part of…

This week, to commemorate the 63rd anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, hundreds of us converged on Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the…

St. Ignatius Loyola looms large in the life of every Jesuit. For most of us, he is daunting, awesome, even a bit frightening. He was a strict taskmaster who wept…

Imagine this--a rigged national election. The popular candidate garnered more votes and precincts but still did not win. Now imagine the population refusing to sit back, to throw up their…

Cardinal Bernardin was right. The best way to pursue the narrow path and uphold the length, breadth, height and depth of God’s love is through a consistent ethic of life,…

In Fort Lauderdale last week to speak at the National Convention of Unitarian Universalists, I met my old friend Bruce Friedrich, with whom I spent eight memorable months in a…

A few weeks ago, I was in Oaxaca on retreat with Maryknoll Lay Missioners who serve and accompany the Mexican poor. One of the most beautiful places in Mexico, Oaxaca…

“This is the best monastic building in the country,” Thomas Merton wrote on May 17, 1968 while visiting the Monastery of Christ in the Desert in northern New Mexico. I…