My friend Fr. Bill called me a few months ago with great excitement. “I just finished reading the best book ever about Thomas Merton.” Then my friend Fr. Pat came…

The night before our recent day in a Las Vegas courtroom for protesting the U.S. drones at Creech Air Force Base, the University of Nevada at Las Vegas Law School…

Today, September 14th, fourteen of us, including four priests, stand trial in the state courthouse in Las Vegas, Nevada on charges of criminal trespassing. The government seeks to jail us…

“Tonight’s theme is the momentum from a gathering storm for hope which I believe will one day bear fruit in abolishing all nuclear weapons.” That’s how Bishop Gabino Zavala, President of Pax Christi USA, launched…

The year has turned again, and friends and I are busy completing plans for our annual Hiroshima Day events in Santa Fe and Los Alamos. Our theme this time around: “Sixty…

It’s been a hot summer across the country, but withering heat comes with the territory for those of us who live in the Southwest. I’ve lived in the high desert…

I shouldn’t be surprised; we’re often hit with bizarre news. But doings around Mother Teresa’s 100th birthday takes grotesquery to a new level. Seems there’s a political ruckus in New York…

The event last week—an uncommon apology—did not attract much notice in the U.S. media. And not hard to understand why. Our news agencies make their livings dishing up vengeance, retaliation,…

Like many of you, I long for peace but feel stuck in our warlike culture, like a Gulf pelican mired in BP’s oil spill. A timely image that touched a…

“When you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not (let the reader understand), then those in Judea must flee to the mountains…” (Mk. 13:14; Mt. 24:15; Lk.…