Violence

March 2024

March 09, 2024
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November 2019

November 01, 2019
In a time when fear holds so much sway, when violence is so often touted...

August 2019

August 10, 2019
A couple of weeks ago I received an email from a church group I am...
August 04, 2019
Every time news breaks of another public shooting, I've come to have the same sinking...

March 2019

March 23, 2019
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern's response to the horrific mosque shootings in the city...

January 2019

January 06, 2019
This post began about a month ago, when I got a funding raising email from...

September 2018

September 14, 2018
Nos autem gloriari oportet in cruce Domini nostri Jesu Christi, in quo est salus, vita,...

May 2018

May 06, 2018
Pope Francis' recently promulgated apostolic exhortation, Gaudete et exsultate, while not apparently garnering as much before-and-after...

March 2018

March 07, 2018
With every ritual post-shooting "national discussion," I grow more weary of saying the same things,...
March 04, 2018
In his weekly appearance on the PBS NewsHour, and his frequent role of sensible centrist,...

October 2017

October 26, 2017
When I first heard reports about an undocumented teenager's appeal for an abortion, my heart...
October 03, 2017
This is a commentary that has become all too routine. My colleagues and I here...

August 2017

August 26, 2017
If there’s one thing I have to credit The Donald for, it’s his marketing savvy....

May 2017

May 14, 2017
Pope Francis has a penchant for using maternal imagery in reference to the Church, and true...

January 2017

January 02, 2017
Last April, a number of prominent Catholic scholars and organizations focused on peacemaking (including my...

September 2015

September 17, 2015
There is a timely yet potentially endangered bill making its way from the House to...

June 2015

June 27, 2015
I vividly recall the autumn of 2008. I had just moved from the US to...
June 21, 2015
The BBC World Service recently featured some striking coverage of responses to Wednesday's shooting at...

January 2015

January 19, 2015
In response to a question from a French journalist on the plane from Sri Lanka to...

December 2014

December 27, 2014
The word "solemn" has a range of meaning that borders on the paradoxical.  Most commonly,...

September 2014

September 25, 2014
It's pretty well known to my friends and former classmates, as well as regular readers...
September 21, 2014
Last month, I was sent an article from The Jesuit Post that has changed the way...
September 08, 2014
I am troubled by all violence. I said this once to an Iraqi priest I...

July 2014

July 31, 2014
Heartbreaking. The word floated up in my mind as I read of the systematic destruction...
July 22, 2014
I'm not usually a big fan of Nicholas Kristof, but he has written a perceptive New...

November 2013

November 12, 2013
Attending daily Mass this morning, I was reminded of two observances taking place today, in...

September 2013

September 04, 2013
A few days before Pope Francis' heartfelt plea for peace in his Sunday Angelus message, President...
September 02, 2013
The pope's Sunday Angelus message this week contained an important announcement: the proclamation of Saturday, September 7...

August 2013

August 23, 2013
This weekend, the consistent life publication Life Matters Journal is hosting a "blogfest" in response to...
August 07, 2013
The following is intended primarily as a thought experiment.  As such, I think it reasonable...
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