“War is never inevitable,” Pope John Paul II said two years ago before the U.S. bombed Iraq. “It is always a defeat for humanity.” When I met John Paul II…
I consider Martin Luther King, Jr. the great, holy prophet to the nation. He was a prophet of nonviolence sent by the God of peace and justice to call our…
“Pilgrimage Through a Burning World: Spiritual Practice and Nonviolent Protest at the Nevada Test Site” a new book by Ken Butigan (New York: State University of New York Press, 2003,…
(This is the introduction to the book, "Apostle of Peace: Essays in Honor of Daniel Berrigan," published by Orbis Books in 1996.) I first met Daniel Berrigan in the early…
I live in a tiny, remote, impoverished, three block long town in the desert of northeastern New Mexico. Everyone in town--and the whole state--knows that I am against the occupation…
On August 6th, 2003, about 75 members of Pax Christi, the national Catholic peace movement, came from all over New Mexico to pray for nuclear disarmament and the closing of…
In the early 1960s, shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, Thomas Merton wrote to the Polish poet Czselaw Milosz that in order to experience authentic Christian hope, we have to…
In the early 1960s, shortly after the Cuban missile crisis, Thomas Merton wrote to the Polish poet Czselaw Milosz that in order to experience authentic Christian hope, we have to…
Every human being on the planet has the right to live in peace. In pursuit of this basic human right, Mahatma Gandhi concluded that the only hope for the human…
My friend Fr. Bill O’Donnell, for twenty five years the pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in Berkeley, California, and one of the great peace and justice activists in the nation,…