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By HANNAH DENHAM | The Washington Post | Published: May 18, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Keron McHugh is booked solid the next 14 months with people eager for ink and the slightest semblance of permanence. The artist was in demand even before the pandemic forced him to shutter the Cardinal ...

Tattoo businesses flourishing again as pandemic eases FREE NEWSLETTERS May 17, 2021 Keron McHugh is booked solid the next 14 months with people eager for ink and the slightest semblance of permanence. The artist was in demand even before the pandemic forced him to shutter the Cardinal Skin Art & Gallery—the Mebane, North Carolina, tattoo studio, art gallery and community space he opened nearly four years ago—so it was not unusual for his appointment book to be full months ahead. But the tat...

Can I Get a Witness? Thirteen Peacemakers, Community Builders and Agitators for Faith & Justice, edited by Charles Marsh, Shea Tuttle and Daniel P. Rhodes. William B. Eerdmans Publishing (Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2019). 398 pp., $26.99.

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Walking with Fr. Daniel Berrigan, S.J., A Criminal for Peace Today is a day to celebrate the prophetic voice and witness of Fr. Daniel Berrigan, the non-violent anti-war activist and poet, whose life and witness has touched so many lives.  He was born on May 9, 1921 and would have been 100 years old today.  He died five years ago, but his spirit continues to animate and inspire so many others.  The following essay is from my recent book,  Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies. Radical dissiden...

Daniel Berrigan, S.J., and friends, including the author. (Photos courtesy of the author; photo collage by Kevin Robles) America asked several authors to consider the life of Daniel Berrigan, S.J., on the fifth anniversary of his death. Joseph M. Cosgrove was Father Berrigan’s lawyer for the last 35 years of Dan’s life. You can read . “We have the sacraments,” Dan Berrigan, S.J., told me. “We have the sacraments and each other to see us through.” It was not what I’d expected t...

Remembering Father Daniel Berrigan, a Prophet of Peace — Rise Up Times Advice to parents, teachers, priests, ministers, et al: The young people will be different if you are different. They are moved by example, as I have been.

Family watching television, 1958. Photograph by Evert F. Baumgardner. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. A few years ago I had a conversation with a close friend of mine about the experience of watching older films on TV with my parents. I’d be sitting there, deeply involved with something by John Ford or Sam Peckinpah or King Vidor, and my father would make a comment about the color of the military uniforms being incorrect, or the fact that i...

Paul Elie, a senior fellow in Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, is the author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own (2003) and Reinventing Bach (2012). 

. I never met Daniel Berrigan, S.J. Nevertheless, he has had a profound influence on the direction of my own life and on my convictions. I was in an editorial meeting with the staff of my college newspaper at Loyola University New Orleans in 2016 when I got a push notification from The New York Times. “Remembering Daniel Berrigan: A Penniless, Powerful Voice for Peace” identified Father Berrigan as a “Jesuit priest, poet, anti-war activist.” It had never occurred to me that those descr...