Connecting the wars overseas and at home
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The frontlines of Pax Christi's fight for peace are both in our backyard and on the other side of the world.
By Guest Blogger John Zokovitch
No more locking kids up and throwing away the key
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In a victory for restorative justice advocates Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that juveniles who have not committed murder cannot be sent to jail for life.
Follow up on "Under the gun"
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As temperatures rise in the summer, so does violence in our streets. And it's been a tough summer for many families here in Chicago.
This was a particularly bad weekend for Father Michael Pfleger, the Southside priest who has become well known nationally for standing up on behalf of victims and against gang leaders and gun manufacturers. Two teens who had been playing basketball in the church gym--open to keep kids off the streets--got in an altercation outside the gym and were shot.
Signs of peace
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Catholics around the world can inspire us with the many ways — both personal and political — through which they build peace.
Mary Mukanaho is a Tutsi in Rwanda. Her seven children and husband were killed in the 1994 genocide-by neighbors whom she had lived next to for 40 years. She survived because she happened to be out of the country at the time. She felt she was going mad and turned to alcohol to dull the pain. She was enraged to see her neighbors receive Communion with the very hands that had murdered her family.
Let's really go in peace
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We need to break our personal and national addiction to violence if we hope to ever see an end to war.
To our modern ears the idea of heresy seems quaint and medieval-involving technical arguments about abstract matters. But I contend that heresy and its cousin apostasy are constructs of down-to-earth significance that we should keep in mind today. And for us Catholics, I submit, our chief heresy is violence.
Peace trained
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In Catholic classrooms and Ugandan villages, Patrick Corrigan strives to learn how to heal wounds of violence.
In 2007, six months after his college graduation, Patrick Corrigan found himself about as far from a leafy, peaceful campus as he could get-in Kampala, Uganda, sitting in on a meeting between parliamentarians and representatives of the Lord's Resistance Army, a notorious rebel group that has terrorized the region for decades and is best known for abducting children and forcing them to participate in its bloody campaigns.
American idol: An interview with Andrew Bacevich
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Could ending our adoration of oil be the key to a peaceful future?
Has the idea of American exceptionalism finally run its historical course in the big muddy by the Euphrates? A persistent critic of the Iraq invasion and an ongoing skeptic of U.S. military adventures pretty much anywhere, Andrew Bacevich is too much a scholar of history to believe that Americans have permanently lost their taste for foreign entanglements.
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Advising Pope Francis on the challenges ahead
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