The Green Encyclical has Arrived!
It’s courageous, it’s prophetic, it’s challenging, it’s holistic, it’s wonderful: That’s what I think of Pope Francis’ environmental encyclical “Laudato...
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The Hidden Poor of Appalachia
Back in the mid-1980s, I was working as a director of religious education at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in western...
The Baltimore Riots: What Happened?
“The God of peace is never glorified by human violence,” wrote the famous Trappist monk Thomas Merton. Whether it’s on...
The Courageous Witness of Blessed Oscar Romero
Who would have predicted it? Who would have imagined that on February 23, 1977, the day of his appointment as...
Your Words Can Feed Violence
According to the New York Times, during a White House luncheon in 1954 Winston Churchill said: “To jaw-jaw [talk-talk] always...
“Peace Be With You”
On the evening of that first day of the week, according to the Gospel of John, when the doors were...
We too Must Bear the Cross
Writing a column on social justice and peace offers me plenty of timely issues to choose from. And I always...
Unholy political positions in the Holy Land
As the minds and hearts of Christians throughout the world focus on the suffering, death and resurrection of our Lord...
Beating Swords into Plowshares
“In the days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established as the highest mountain and raised...
