On the fifth anniversary of the death of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., a close friend and colleague looks back on a poignant moment in their work together.
Social Justice
Posted inFaith, Last Take
James Martin on Daniel Berrigan: A Jesuit for the long haul
Dan may have been a “radical,” but he was also a man committed to his Jesuit vows.
Posted inFaith, Jesuitical
Podcast: When protesting is a spiritual practice
This week on Jesuitical, Zac and Ashley talk with Nathan Schneider about the legacy of Occupy Wall Street 10 years later and his friendship with the Jesuit priest and activist, Dan Berrigan.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Ecotheological river poetry and the funk-loving Jesus of the Deep South
In the poems of ‘Delta Tears,’ Philip Kolin blends ecotheology and Scripture with pleas for social justice.
Posted inFaith, Features
Our society has had a near-death experience. Will we emerge from it ready to live fully?
Let us add direction and purpose to our resolve, and let us give ourselves some magis-inspired goals.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
The current minimum wage is not just, according to the Catholic church. $15 wouldn’t be either.
After adjusting for rising costs of living, a full-time federal minimum wage worker today earns 18 percent less than what her counterpart earned 11 years ago—$15,080 annually in 2021, compared with $18,458 in 2009.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Archbishop Cordileone: Racism is a virus. The Acts of the Apostles shows us how to fight it.
A homily on anti-Asian hate and racism from Archbishop Salvatore Joseph Cordileone of San Francisco.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Archbishop Hebda prays for peace following police shooting of Daunte Wright
“I am encouraged and inspired by the pleas for peace that have continued to come from the family of George Floyd” over the Wright shooting, Archbishop Hebda added.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Is there a ‘crisis’ on the U.S.-Mexico border? It’s a tough question to answer.
‘It is a question of perspective. Whose perspective do we adopt when we ask questions like that?’
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Final Plowshares Catholic peace activist sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
“My neighborhood, my family and I have a right to live without a nuclear gun on hair-trigger alert held perpetually to our heads,” Colville told the judge.