Franciscan Louis Vitale, Facing Prison For Peace, Again
This week in Tucson, Arizona, Franciscan Father Louis Vitale, along with my Jesuit brother Steve Kelly, will stand trial. They're being tried on thin and haughty charges -- trespass and…
This week in Tucson, Arizona, Franciscan Father Louis Vitale, along with my Jesuit brother Steve Kelly, will stand trial. They're being tried on thin and haughty charges -- trespass and…
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.…
As I prepare to stand trial in Albuquerque on Sept. 6th for our attempt a year ago to get a New Mexico Senator to speak against the Iraq war, I’m…
(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 1993…
Last weekend, one hundred and twenty five of us made the annual pilgrimage of repentance up into the mountains of Los Alamos, NM, birthplace of the bomb, to remember Hiroshima.…
Last fall, when I stood trial for our Santa Fe antiwar witness, I was asked about my mission as a Jesuit priest. I testified under oath that our job was…
Welcome again, dear friends. I’m just back this weekend from speaking in England and Scotland, and I didn’t know it, but if you asked what country is actually on the…
“We stand at the brink of a second nuclear age. Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki has the world faced such perilous choices. North…
“Enter through the narrow gate,” Jesus says at the end of the Sermon on the Mount. “For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and…
Not long ago, the legendary theologian Walter Wink and his wife June invited me to lunch with friends in Santa Fe. It was a blessing to enjoy their company, but…