With the global economy collapsing, wars still raging, the climate warming and nuclear arsenals threatening -- plus church folk arraying themselves along divisions ever more hostile -- the need to…

Last week, to celebrate legendary folksinger Pete Seeger’s 90th birthday, family, friends and the folk-music world threw a party for him at Madison Square Garden. We sang, we cheered, and…

Last week some five hundred of us gathered in Washington, D.C., to repent of the mortal sin of the U.S. war on Iraq. There we expressed our remorse and called…

This week, Orbis books published Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings, an anthology of the charismatic Brazilian archbishop’s speeches, poems and essays. It’s an essential collection for anyone struggling to live…

Last week, on Easter Sunday morning, sixty of us gathered for Mass around a makeshift altar in the spectacular Nevada desert, about an hour and a half northwest of Las…

On Holy Thursday, at 3 p.m. in the afternoon, fourteen of us walked on to the Creech Air Force Base near Indian Springs, Nevada (about an hour northwest of Las…

Holy Week began for me this week in Denver, where I spoke to a crowd about Jesus’ campaign of nonviolent resistance culminating millennia ago in Jerusalem. There he sized up…

Last Friday night, I delivered the annual Ethics Lecture at St. Francis University, a modern campus near Altoona nestled among Pennsylvania’s rolling hills. It’s an idyllic landscape for a school…

Last week, New Mexicans celebrated a great victory for justice and mercy: Governor Bill Richardson signed into law a bill abolishing the death penalty. This historic event came after years…

I had hoped to join a recent peace delegation headed late February for the maligned nation of Iran, but was unable to make it. In the end, only six of…