Impunity on the Jesuit slayings in El Salvador has prevailed for nearly 30 years as many high-profile and incriminated individuals are still tied to power.
War and Peace
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Protesters at bishops’ gathering ask for sanctuary, anti-war stance
As the U.S. bishops were beginning their fall assembly in Baltimore, also marking their 100th anniversary as a conference, a couple of nonviolent protesters gathered nearby.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Nuclear disarmament now a ‘moral imperative’ as Pope Francis rejects deterrence
Pope Francis condemned not only the threat of nuclear weapons but also “their very possession” in a landmark statement on Nov. 10.
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Lebanese Catholic prelates urge world leaders to stop Middle East wars
Catholic leaders in Lebanon urged the international community to stop wars and bring peace to the Middle East.
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Pope Francis warns nuclear deterrence offers only a false sense of security
“International relations cannot be held captive to military force, mutual intimidation and the parading of stockpiles of arms,” Pope Francis said.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
World leaders are meeting at the Vatican to discuss nuclear weapons. Here’s why.
A Vatican conference represents the beginning of a coordination of Catholic universities, institutions and bishops’s conferences on this issue.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
10 years after fighting in Iraq, I have found healing in the Catholic Church
In Iraq, I witnessed death and tragedy, and without faith, I had no way to process it.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Daniel in the lions’ den: A Berrigan biography
Daniel Berrigan, S.J., went from a poet to an activist, and turned activism into poetry.
Posted inBooks, Politics & Society
Has the United States learned its lesson after the My Lai Massacre?
This is a book about war, about inhumane acts, about personal and institutional instincts of self-preservation.
Posted inBooks, Politics & Society
Reporting on World War II: to hell and back, all for a good story
The Great War had a tincture of tragic elegy…. World War II, by contrast, was thoroughly modern, disengaged from any romantic past.