Doubting Thomas, we call him contemptuously. It’s a cheap and easy temptation to reprove him, the common-sense disciple who refused to believe that Jesus had risen. He wants to believe,…

A few weeks ago, after visiting oppressed Palestinians in the southern region of the West Bank, I climbed the Mount of Olives near the Old City of Jerusalem to pray…

The spring of 1993 was one of my most memorable Good Fridays. A thousand gathered for a rally, and then marched on to Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Weapons Labs, near San…

War is never the solution. The Obama Administraton's new war in Libya (on top of our current wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan) will not bring God's peace to anyone;…

When the demagogue Glenn Beck urged Christians recently to quit any church that used the words “social justice” or “economic justice,” he betrayed the depth of our cultural darkness. But…

“I have often been threatened with death,” Archbishop Oscar Romero told a Guatemalan reporter two weeks before his assassination, thirty years ago on March 24, 1980. “If they kill me,…

Last month, I spent a few quiet days on retreat by the Sea of Galilee. I was hoping for renewal, grace, hope and peace in that holy land before I…

Last week, I was in Los Angeles visiting friends by the ocean, when we heard the terrible news of the earthquake in Japan. We turned on the TV and watched…

I remember the moment in 1982, in front of the bulletin board at the Jesuit novitiate, reading a quote which someone had posted. It was from Cesar Chavez, the founder…

Many books, pamphlets and films tell the story of nonviolent resistance. Now a new documentary has just come out, on DVD, which puts to rest the lingering question—does nonviolence really…