Peace

Beware the Contagion of War

Brian D. McLaren December 26, 2023

As atrocities continue on both sides of the conflict in the Holy Land, the striking Franciscan vision of a more peace-loving world is all the more needed.

Searching for Peace at Christmastime

Christopher Heffron December 21, 2023

The news is filled with stories of turmoil. St. Francis understood that peace was our reward—we just need to cultivate and share it.

Brian Terrell, who lives on a Catholic Worker farm in Maloy, Iowa, and Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, carry a banner in New York City during a march to abolish nuclear weapons Nov. 28, 2023. Catholic Worker and Pax Christi members were among the participants. The event coincided with the second Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons taking place at U.N. headquarters in New York City Nov. 27-Dec. 1. (OSV News photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)

Nuclear disarmament a ‘pro-life issue,’ warns archbishop

OSV News December 4, 2023

The threat from nuclear weapons is as great now as ever, and their destructive power is more immediate than climate change, said Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, at a Nov. 29 Mass in Manhattan that remembered ...

child looking out the window next to a peace poster

Pursuing Peace

Bruce Epperly December 3, 2023

On the first Sunday of Advent, Isaiah speaks of a day in which they will “beat their swords into plowshares” and nations will “learn war no more.” That seems like an impossible dream.

Look for Good News

Carol Ann Morrow November 18, 2023

Television is often filled with murders, detectives, crime and mayhem. It does not resemble my life. I choose to watch no crime series on TV this evening.

In Search of Peace

Colleen Arnold, MD October 21, 2023

The Gospel of Luke tells us that as Jesus entered Jerusalem for his ministry there, he wept over the city and said, “If this day you only knew what makes for peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes” (Lk ...