By NEIL COSGROVE When Blake Strode, Executive Director of 2018 Merton Award winner ArchCity Defenders (ACD), saw the list of the 45 previous awardees, he felt something like “impostor syndrome.” Did his […]
Archcity defenders prove worthy of Thomas Merton award
An enormous loss, but a great legacy. The 50th anniversary of the passing of Thomas Merton
BY JOYCE ROTHERMEL It was December 10, 1968 when Thomas Merton was found dead in his lodgings at a conference center in Bangkok, Thailand. Fr. Louis, his religious name, had just […]
In it for the long term
By BETTE MCDEVITT If you stop in or call the Merton Center on a Friday morning, you’ll meet or speak with Lois Goldstein, a long time member and volunteer. Lois came to […]
‘The fifth risk’ by Michael Lewis
BY MOLLY RUSH Tweets, lies, furious outbursts, bragging: daily fodder for the news coverage that obscures the real story: the long-term damage to government departments and programs. Michael Lewis’s The Fifth Risk […]
Dismantle border imperialism! Fight, create, power to the people
Thanks to all who supported and participated in this year’s Encuentro at the US-Mexico border, November 16-18. In 2016 School of the Americas Watch moved their annual witness from Ft. Benning, Georgia […]
The plot to control the world
BY MIKE STOUT When it comes to hypocrisy, the US military and national security establishments know no bounds. And once again, USW labor and human rights lawyer and author Dan Kovalik has […]
A Pittsburgh-area resource and the woman leading it: an interview with Mila Sanina, the executive director of Publicsource
BY JOYCE ROTHERMEL Do you care about facts and find it hard to know when the media is presenting the truth? Well, you are very fortunate if you know about and are […]
Courts remain last resort for many immigrants with temporary protected status
By JOYCE ROTHERMEL Over the past year or so, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has announced the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designations for nationals of Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, […]
Catholics ponder a crisis in their church
By JIM MCCARVILLE In the months since a searing Grand Jury Report on clergy sexual abuse was released, Catholics throughout western Pennsylvania have been contemplating the causes, the cures, the pain created, […]
Opportunity for distressed Catholics
By KEVIN HAYES This is an invitation to Catholics— practicing, former, wavering, and progressive — who are dealing with the clergy abuse tragedy in the Catholic Church, the upheaval of merging parishes, […]
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