By Michael Drohan 2017 has been a momentous year, on the one hand for the great strides made in condemning and outlawing even the possession of nuclear weapons and on the other […]
EQT Can’t Buy Our Community
By Ron Read (Photo caption: Activists gather across from the Courtyard Marriott Hotel on Campbells Run Road in Robinson to protest against wage theft from immigrants. Photo credit: Pam Panchak/Post-Gazette) If you […]
US Catholic Bishop: “Nonviolence or Non-Existence”
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 […]
Sacred Texts with Violence as Sub-text and Struggle for Nonviolence
By Michael Drohan (Photo caption: Dr. Carol Zinn. Photo credit: The Catholic Leader) Review of Book Is Religion Killing Us?: Violence in the Bible and the Quran by Jack Nelson Pallmeyer, 2003. […]
TMC Welcomes New Board Member: Emily Neff
By Joyce Rothermel (Photo Caption: Emily Neff. Photo Credit: Emily Neff) Last fall, the membership of the Merton Center elected three new board members: Fatema Juma, Emily Neff and Robert Wilson. You […]
Sierra Club Allegheny Group Update
By Michael Pastorkovich The Sierra Club is the oldest and largest environmental organization in the United States. Founded in 1892 by naturalist John Muir, the Club’s organization structure comprises three levels: the […]
Prague Writers Festival, 2017: American on the Hot Seat
By Mike Schneider (Photo by: Mike Schneider) My friend Jan and I were in Prague as tourists in November, during the Prague Writers’ Festival (PWF). While Prague’s ancient culture and stunning beauty […]
Reflection on Race by Thomas Merton
By Joyce Rothermel (Photo credit: cathedralofhope.org) Thomas Merton believed that racism and militarism were the two most urgent issues of his time. While we may update the “urgent list” for our own […]
A Turn to the Left
By Bette McDevitt (Photo caption: Bill Wegener. Photo credit: Bette McDevitt) One day, thirty years ago, Mel Madden, a member of the Merton Center, now deceased, brought his out-of-town friend to have […]
Panel on Problems in US Justice system
By Marianne Novy On November 13, an evening panel at the Church of the Redeemer in Squirrel Hill analyzed some of the current problems with the American justice system before an attentive […]
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