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Jeff Dietrich has persisted on a soulful journey of more than 50 years of journalism, hospitality and civil disobedience at the Los Angeles Catholic Worker. In an NCR Q&A, he speaks about his life of service and resistance.

Today is Lost Sock Memorial Day...

Fifty-five years ago, on May 17 1968, nine Catholic peace activists – including two priests, Daniel Berrigan and his brother, Philip – burst into the recruitment office in the comfortable suburb of Catonsville, near Baltimore, Maryland.

As one clear indicator of the long-term and devastating impact of colonialism, in Vietnam—a state that had existed for centuries before the French invasion—before French colonial rule, a majority of the population was literate.

Our fear of ending up alone is a healthy nagging from God and nature.

A diocesan priestly promise of poverty could make the priesthood more appealing to the right men and less appealing to the wrong.

In 1972, my Australian students protested French nuclear testing. In 2023, young people again may be able to stir up action to pressure an end to nuclear madness that endangers people and planet.

The potency of the warning of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' Doomsday Clock seems to be fading....when the urgency is high.

Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Doomsday Clock stands at 90 seconds before midnight, the closest to global catastrophe it has ever been. Nonviolence is the only solution.

  Cornel West appeared on the Bill Maher show recently where Islam and violence was brought up again.   The following is a brief excerpt of an [...]