By Kathleen Gerace My first ventures into peacemaking were the demonstrations against the wars in Afghanistan and then Iraq. Marching along with thousands of others was exhilarating. I felt empowered. But I […]
By Neil Cosgrove Americans are fond of saying that those accused of a crime are “innocent until proven guilty,” and reassure themselves that trials before “a jury of one’s peers” make conviction […]
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 […]
June 22, 2017 – By Neil Cosgrove During the 1950s and ‘60s FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was something of a folk hero for millions of Americans, a crime-fighting protector of the […]
June 6, 2017 – By Bette McDevitt Timothy Snyder, who wrote this primer of 130 pages, a guide for these times, is a history scholar. His areas of expertise are Nazi Germany […]
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