“The trouble with the Catholic Worker,” Dorothy Day writes in her newly published diaries, The Duty of Delight, “is that one is so busy living that there is not time…

Last month in Santa Fe, Pax Christi New Mexico held its first “Assembly Day,” and just this past weekend in Albuquerque, held its annual retreat. What a healing time we…

“We can throw our pebble in the pond and be confident that its ever-widening circle will reach around the world,” wrote Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement. On…

This week, Orbis Books publishes one of most significant books in years, a labor of some fifteen years work by my friend Jim Douglass. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He…

There they are, two crestfallen disciples after Jesus’ horrific torture and execution. Fearful and grief-stricken, they're clearing out of Jerusalem and drifting toward Emmaus, none of which should bring the…

It was six o’clock on April 5 th,1968, a Friday morning. My mother came into my room, shook me awake and said, “John, Martin Luther King has been killed. You…

After pondering the arrest, trial, torture and execution of Jesus this past Holy Week, and the ongoing crucifixion of Christ in the world’s poor, in the people of Iraq, in…

Last week, after lectures at the Thomas Merton Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, and in Victoria and Cowichan Bay on Vancouver Island, I caught the early morning ferry back to…

The story of Lazarus, Martha and Mary, a story of death and despair, life and hope, not only climaxes John’s Gospel (11:1-45, from last Sunday) before the last supper and…

John’s Gospel, the supposedly most “spiritual” one, is full of death threats and assassination attempts, such as the end of chapter 8, where the religious authorities pick up stones to…