By Tony Magliano The National Catholic Reporter Working for peace can be dangerous. In some parts of the world, promoting the nonviolent teachings of Jesus can get you killed. But…
This week, with a heavy heart, I am officially leaving the Jesuits after 32 years. After three years of discernment, I’m leaving because the Society of Jesus in the U.S.…
For the past six months, I’ve been living with the possibility that I have cancer. My doctor and then a specialist both told me quite emphatically that this was the…
With everyone else, I’ve been mourning, celebrating and reflecting these past few days on the extraordinary life of Nelson Mandela, who died on December 5th. I’m amazed at his political…
On December 7, 1993, my friends Philip Berrigan, Lynn Fredriksson, Bruce Friedrich, and I walked onto the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, North Carolina at four in the…
Thousands of us gathered this past weekend in Columbus, Georgia to pray, study, reflect, network, remember and march to the gates of the notorious “School of the Americas,” the U.S.…
This weekend, thousands of us will converge on Columbus, Georgia, for the annual protest at the “School of the Americas,” the official U.S. military training institution for Latin American militaries…
In the early 1990s, while in graduate theology school, one of my professors invited us to write about a theologian we had never studied. I picked William Stringfellow, the legendary…
So many voices these days uphold the “rights” of multinational corporations, defend the billionaire one percent and their weapons, actively obstruct free healthcare for those who need it, legitimate drone…
A few weeks ago, sixteen year old Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban but survived and spoke out globally for peace, met with President Obama…