(Photo Caption: Participants in the Stop Banking the Bomb campaign converse with passers outside the PNC bank branch on Forbes Avenue in Squirrel Hill. The action took place on February 9. Photo […]
By Gabriel McMorland The Thomas Merton Center started out the new year with a spirited protest against wage theft in high winds and single digit temperatures. As I write this, we’re preparing […]
By Neil Cosgrove Americans often express concern that their government has become too much in the thrall of ideologies, of ways of interpreting the world so extreme that the ideologues in question […]
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 Emily Deferrari Some brief and relatively recent history: From the 7th into the 20th century, Jerusalem was administratively linked to Constantinople, the capital of the Turkish Empire. In 1917, during the […]
By Joyce Rothermel Celebrate spring’s coming renewal by renewing your spirits and deepening your desire to choose the way of the Gospel with Dr. Carol Zinn, a Sister of St. Joseph from […]
By Jim McCarville Joan Williams book, White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America, has a lot to teach about the consequences of a “professional privilege” that disadvantages what she calls the […]
By Neil Cosgrove Some weeks ago, a letter-to-the-editor appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette attempting to debunk the claim “that only rich people and corporations benefit from a healthy stock market.” The writer […]
By Kathleen Gerace The practice of nonviolent communication has never seemed more urgent – or relevant– than it does at the present moment in our history. Before the latest tragic mass shooting […]
By Molly Rush I recently began thinking about a number of black activists, many of whom may be forgotten. I came to know some of them through my work with the Catholic […]
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