A few years ago, Daniel Berrigan and I celebrated Easter in a New York park with a few Jesuit friends. We held a small liturgy and a picnic. After reading…

We of the Santa Fe protest group, nine of us, had ourselves braced for trial last Thursday in federal court in Albuquerque. We are embroiled in legal difficulties for our…

I was on retreat ten years ago, during my Jesuit tertianship year in Belfast, pondering the Holy Week readings, when I came upon this text, Jesus being hauled before “the…

G’day from Down Under! I’ve been on the road in Australia for a month now, from Sydney on the east coast to Perth on the west, then about face and…

Last month brought a kind of a travel nightmare. I lectured in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and the next morning at 3:30 a.m. (New Mexico time) out the door I went,…

Probably little surprise, but I’m a fan of movies with a message for justice and peace, films such as Gandhi, The Mission, In the Name of the Father, Missing, Born…

To study the theological basis for Gospel nonviolence, there’s no better place to start than the groundbreaking works of my friend Jim Douglass, The Nonviolent Cross, Resistance and Contemplation, Lightning…

The prophet Isaiah wrote long ago that the nations of the world must one day climb the mountain of God. There, on the mountaintop, God will instruct them in God’s…

Before Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, she spent twenty years teaching well-to-do secluded high school girls as a Sister of Loreto in India. Then one day, while riding…