Connecting the wars overseas and at home

Online Editor| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
blog
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

Fighting the blues: The sad tale of Avatar

By Patrick McCormick| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Culture

In 1929 Al Jolson told audiences of The Jazz Singer that they hadn't heard (or seen) nothin' yet, and he was right. They hadn't seen Judy Garland croon and dance down that dazzling yellow brick road to find The Wizard of Oz. They hadn't shuddered as the earth and sky trembled and quaked when God (or Cecil B. DeMille) gave Charlton Heston The Ten Commandments.

Patrick McCormick is professor of Christian ethics at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington. See more posts by Patrick McCormick

Not-so-basic training: Recruiting priests for military duty

By John Lasker| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Culture
Like any enlisted man or woman, Catholic chaplains have go training, and they don't get special treatment.
John Lasker is a freelance journalist from Columbus, Ohio. See more posts by John Lasker

Soul-searching on Sept 11

Bryan Cones| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
blog

American idol: An interview with Andrew Bacevich

By A U.S. Catholic interview| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Culture
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.

See more posts by A U.S. Catholic interview

Who Would Jesus Kill? War, Peace, and the Christian Tradition

By James Halstead, O.S.A.| Print this pagePrint | Email this pageShare
Article Culture

By Mark J. Allman (St. Mary’s Press, 2008)

“Who would Jesus kill?” asks author Mark Allman in this introduction to Christian thought on the ideal of peace and the morality of warfare. The answer is easy: No one! The unmarried, childless, propertyless, non-political Jesus of the canonical gospels kills no one.

See more posts by James Halstead, O.S.A.