50 years on, Birmingham pledge of nonviolence still inspires
On the Road to Peace: Fifty years later, civil rights protests in Birmingham, Ala. still inspire.
Peace & Justice
Jesuit anti-nuclear activist back in jail for probation violation
Jesuit Fr. Steve Kelly, a noted peace activist who has spent over a decade in jail for nonviolent protest actions, has been returned to prison for probation violations.
Inattention to accuracy about 'Catonsville Nine' distorts history
Opinion: A friend once said we should write our own history. If we don't, somebody else will get it wrong. He was right.
Former Guatemala president sentenced to 80 years in prison
Guatemala City -- Former Guatemala President Gen. Efrain Rios Montt found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity.
Activists who broke into security complex found guilty, face 30 years in prison
Despite testimony that referred to the group's actions as vandalism, the jury found the three guilty of intentionally and willfully harming "the national defense of the United States."
Trial begins for activists who broke into Tennessee security complex
Each of the activists faces three separate charges of destruction of property, "depredation" of government property, and trespassing for the July break-in.
Religious life calls Air Force vet who once produced nuclear weapons
Salesian Sr. Jennifer Kane is a living conversion story, who has gone, she said, from "bombs to Bibles."
A 16-year military veteran who at one time was a missile systems engineer working on intercontinental nuclear weapons, Kane is preparing to make her first profession of vows with the Salesian Sisters of St. John Bosco in August.
How does someone make the conversion?
"By the grace of God, that's the only thing I can tell you," Kane told the Catholic Courier, newspaper of the diocese of Rochester. She said her vocational path "is long and it is crazy."
Well-being of priests focus of federation conference
Renewal of mind, body and spirit was the focus for close to 100 priests who attended the conference of the National Federation of Priests' Councils, held April 22-25.
Former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo appeals for prison's closure
"The patriotic thing, the American thing, the human thing to do here is to close Guantanamo," writes U.S. Air Force veteran Col. Morris Davis, who on Wednesday posted an online petition that calls for closing the military detention facility.
It is time to free the Guantanamo hunger strikers
The biblical admonition "to proclaim liberty to captives" (Luke 4:18) has taken on critical urgency with respect to the 166 prisoners being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. To protest their unjust indefinite detention and dehumanizing mistreatment, many prisoners are now in the third month of a hunger strike, and with each passing day, their health deteriorates.
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In This Issue
May 10-23, 2013
- Illinois parish's ESL program welcomes all
- A different Mary assumes the stage
- A question few seem to consider when the US wages war afar
- [Print Edition Only] Special Section: Summer Listings
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