(Photo Caption: Jim Ray (Photo provided by Joyce Rothermel) By Jim Ray Several years after graduating from McCormick Theological Seminary I began a career in Campus Ministry at the University of Illinois […]
NewPeople is the peace and justice newspaper of Pittsburgh and the Tri-state area, and is published 11 times a year. It fills the voids left by the mainstream media reflecting the reality of progressive, alternative politics locally, nationally and globally.
As a publication of the Thomas Merton Center, the paper reports on the issues of war, poverty, racism and oppression, raising the moral questions involved in the non-violent struggle to bring about a more peaceful and just world. The NewPeople acts as an organizing tool and communiqué for Thomas Merton Center members and the activist community at large.
(Photo Caption: Jim Ray (Photo provided by Joyce Rothermel) By Jim Ray Several years after graduating from McCormick Theological Seminary I began a career in Campus Ministry at the University of Illinois […]
All are welcome to attend the upcoming potluck at the Merton Center on Wednesday, May 23 from 6:30 – 8:30 PM on the topic of the Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign, endorsed […]
By Michael Drohan On Saturday, April 7, 2018 a gas attack on the city of Douma in Syria, was reported. Douma is a suburb of Damascus formerly controlled by two jihadist factions, […]
By Maggie Weaver “We conclude that the doctrine of ‘separate but equal’ has no place. Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal” — Chief Justice Earl Warren, 1954 On May 17, 1954, the […]
(Photo Caption: The Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign calls attention to PNC Bank’s investment in nuclear weapon manufacturers on April 24th. (Photo provided by Bette McDevitt) By Bette McDevitt Rev. Dordal is a […]
(Photo Caption: Workers and organizers held up signs opposing wage theft at Chapel Harbor. (Photo: Matthew Bauer) A large banner was held up at the demonstration (Photo: Matthew Bauer) By Krystle M. Knight […]
By Will Lawbaugh They whom we love and lose are no longer where they were before. They are now wherever we are. –St. John Chrysostom Thomas Merton’s journals, from 1939 to his […]
By Joyce Rothermel Seven Catholic Plowshares activists were detained early Thursday morning, April 5, at the Kings Bay Naval Base, St. Mary’s, Georgia. They entered the base on Wednesday night, April 4. […]
By Joyce Rothermel A wonderful opportunity is afforded to people in the Pittsburgh area June 1-3, 2018. That weekend, Pittsburgh Area Pax Christi, Veterans for Peace and the Thomas Merton Center are […]
By Lois Goldstein Think globally, act locally is a phrase that could have been written with Caryl Beal in mind. Caryl, who died on April 7, had strong beliefs that she linked […]