LENT 2011
This year, Lent starts one day short of the latest date on which it can begin: Ash Wednesday falls on March 9. Lent is a word derived from the German,…
Mother’s Day Proclamation: A Day of Peace, Nonviolence & Reconciliation
Take a moment to contemplate the real origins of Mother’s Day: the belief that women can create peace and justice through nonviolent love and community rooted in humanity rather than…
The Nonviolent Palm Sunday and the Nonviolent Holy Week of 33 AD
Just in case your Palm Sunday and Holy Week liturgies do not communicate it clearly, or just in case your priest, minister, bishop, preacher or pastor do not tell you…
On the Revolution of Love It “Changes the World without Making a Noise”
It is thus understood that nonviolence, for Christians, is not mere tactical behavior but a person’s way of being, the attitude of one who is convinced of God’s love and…
The Passion of The Christ: A Meditation on A Film
The Passion of The Christ, produced and directed by Mr. Mel Gibson, is the single finest cinematic representation of the Nonviolent Jesus of the Gospels and His Way of Nonviolent…
Pilate Lives! Boston College Washes Its Hands of the Blood of the Innocent
Can there be greater compounding of spiritual laxness for a Catholic institution than going beyond silence about the killing of over 100,000 civilians in Iraq and the maiming of hundreds…
Preemptive Truth: “What did they know and when did they know it?”
“He who controls the present controls the past, and he who controls the past controls the future.” 1984 (George Orwell) The intentional presentation of historical falsehoods as historical truths is…
Remember: August 6
Throughout the world August 6 is rightfully remembered as the day that humanity entered into a never-before-seen form of homicidal violence-the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945. Unlike the…