“The death penalty will be abolished. It’s just a matter of time now.” So said Mike Farrell, star of M*A*S*H and a leading opponent of the death penalty, in a…

I was in Washington, D.C. last week for the opening day of the trial of thirty-five friends and peacemakers who dared to protest the indefinite detention and torture of detainees…

My friend Sister Hildegarde Smith died last month. It was on April 25, at the headquarters of the Sisters of Christian Charity in Wilmette, IL. She and I had served…

Last week, I drove up the mountain to the town of Los Alamos, birthplace of the bomb, along Trinity Drive past Oppenheimer Road near the National Nuclear Weapons Labs. I…

Monday May 19th commemorates an historic occasion. It marks 40 years since the shattering gesture of the Catonsville Nine, those illustrious Catholic resisters, including Daniel and Philip Berrigan. With intent…

In May, 1983 and May, 1985, I attended Sojourners’ “Peace Pentecost” rallies in Washington, D.C.--prayer services and inspiring speakers and nonviolent demonstrations against war and injustice. Those were some of…

“The trouble with the Catholic Worker,” Dorothy Day writes in her newly published diaries, The Duty of Delight, “is that one is so busy living that there is not time…

Last month in Santa Fe, Pax Christi New Mexico held its first “Assembly Day,” and just this past weekend in Albuquerque, held its annual retreat. What a healing time we…

“We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever-widening circle will reach around the world,” wrote Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement. On…

This week, Orbis Books publishes one of most significant books in years, a labor of some fifteen years work by my friend Jim Douglass. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He…