High-tech warfare administers death from a great distance. We heard a lot over the early years of the late (once and future?) War on Terror about weapons of...
War and peace
In 1980, in the midst of a U.S. funded war the UN Truth Commission called genocidal, the soon-to-be-assassinated Archbishop Óscar Romero promised history that...
Few writers of the past century have had as big an impact on so many people as Thomas Merton (1915-1968). His readers ranged from popes to high school...
The growing Kenyan church responds to the challenges of a young democracy. “Our mother, Kenya, we love you so much; we need you again,” sing the...
Among the many victims of the Iraq war have been our own fellow Catholics. I have a confession to make: Back in 2003, when the Bush administration directed our...
Iraqis are on the move away from their broken nation. Who will be responsible for them? In the buildup to the Iraq invasion, then Secretary of State Colin...
Families separated. Millions left for dead. Do we share some of the blame? Patrick Mwnyamahord knows where his father is buried because a neighbor...
New classes of "usable" nuclear weapons are on the Pentagon's menu. Who's buying? Bunker Buster the Friendly Nuke was launched by the...
Families separated. Millions left for dead. Do we share some of the blame? Patrick Mwnyamahord knows where his father is buried because a neighbor showed him...
Among the remarkable side effects of the conflict between the United States and Iraq has been the revival of the just war theory, the set of ethical...
