By Joyce Rothermel The first speaker of the Association of Pittsburgh Priests’ Spring Series is Jeffrey Sachs, Ph.D., an award-winning economist with degrees from Harvard and Columbia Universities. His topic will be: […]
By Kevin Hayes Members of Social Justice Seekers are planning to make positive changes in our city in 2019 through their own work and aligning themselves with other activist groups like the […]
Looking ahead to the spring, the Association of Pittsburgh Priests invites you to put the dates of this year’s spring speakers’ series on your calendars now. All events will be held at […]
BY BETTE MCDEVITT Rev. Dordal is a member of the Thomas Merton Center and a coordinator of the Stop Banking the Bomb Campaign, which is targeting PNC Bank’s investments in nuclear weapons […]
BY JIM RAY Several years after graduating from McCormick Theological Seminary I began a career in Campus Ministry at the University of Illinois in ChampaignUrbana. This was in January 1963. Three weeks […]
By Emily Deferrari At midnight the bells began. A cacophony of Chinese wind chimes, and hand held bells, and sleigh bells, Sunday morning church bells, the sound of Eastern gongs, large bells […]
By Bernard Survil Bishop John Michael Botean of the Catholic Romanian Diocese, based in Canton, Ohio, was the only U.S. Catholic bishop to tell the faithful of his flock that the invasion […]
By Neil Cosgrove This piece originally appeared in the May 2015 of the NewPeople in-print publication. Update to come in the May 2017 issues of the NewPeople. In refusing to bargain […]
By Bette McDevitt October 1, 2016 I’ve admired Sister Patricia McCann, of the Pittsburgh Sisters of Mercy, for years, and now I know what makes her tick. “My social justice orientation is […]
by Bette McDevitt Father Don Fisher, a founding member of the Merton Center, had a habit of taking long walks along Braddock Avenue in East Hills to prepare the sermons for his […]
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