"Women are the peacemakers. The world will not achieve peace without the energy and the work of women." So writes Dolores Huerta of the United Farmworkers. Gandhi said the same…
“We’re here to collect Senator Pete Domenici’s signature on our Declaration of Peace,” we said to the security official in the lobby of the Santa Fe Federal Building. “We’re here…
In Matthew chapter six, the middle section of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us to pray, give alms, fast, and forgive. He offers these tools to help us…
Imagine this: thousands of priests, nuns, monks, deacons, bishops and cardinals dropping everything and taking to the streets. Around the White House they march, week after week, and then off…
"War is not inevitable. I don't think we can believe in God and be pessimistic about the future. The world is in God's hands. So we have to keep going,…
On Feb. 12, 2005, Sr. Dorothy Stang walked along a dirt road deep in the heart of Brazil's Amazon, on her way to meet a handful of poor farmers bearing…
On Thursday, September 6th, 2007, six of us were found guilty in Federal court in Albuquerque, NM by a Federal judge for trying to visit the office of our senator.…
On Aug. 22, 1971, a large group of anti-war activists, including four priests and a Lutheran minister, were arrested and indicted for trying to destroy files from the draft board,…
On Sept. 6, a federal judge in Albuquerque, N.M. found six of us guilty for trying to visit the office of our senator. We will be sentenced in a few…
John Dominic Crossan, New Testament scholar and bestselling author, has just published an illuminating book about the nonviolence of Jesus, God and Empire: Jesus Against Rome, Then and Now (Harper…