Conspiracy buffs couldn't have concocted a more compelling story.
Cardinal Joseph
Bernardin, the archbishop of Chicago, has announced that the cancer
he was treated for in June 1995 has returned.
Some are calling
it "a pivotal moment." Others have labeled it "flawed
and dangerous." Only in retrospect will we be able to judge
whether the recently enacted Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
The Pentagon
snuck out an admission that the students at the notorious School
of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia, once used manuals advocating
torture, assassination, and kidnapping as t
Seventy-five
years after its creation, a statue of suffragists Lucretia Mott,
Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton will at long last
join the all-male statuary of the U.S.
The occupation of Haiti marks a new, hopeful era in U.S.
relations with our neighbors in this hemisphere, signaling the
birth of the "Clinton Doctrine" under which American
power lines up agains
For many religious peace
and justice organizations, the invited invasion of Haiti has
posed a dilemma: a clash between the commitment to nonviolence
and the hunger for justice.
The Christian Right makes its bid for the political mainstream.
Across the country, the Religious Right has showed its
strength in a remarkable series of recent victories. In the past
few months, the Christian Right has:
Imagine the situation if Jimmy Carter had not gone to
North Korea this summer, and if Kim Il Sung’s death had come
in the midst of a still-escalating crisis.
When trying to make sense of the world population picture,
there are lies, damn lies, and there are global statistics.
The day after Richard Nixon’s funeral, The New York
Times editorialized that the White House-sponsored occasion
was a "rite of reconciliation" that brought "to a
fitting end his 20-y
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Like many U.S. Christians, Garland Robertson had moral concerns about the Persian Gulf
war. And like many others, Robertson expressed his concerns in a letter to the local
newspaper.
What’s the difference between a political protest and organized crime?
The forthcoming elections in El Salvador promise to be the freest in the country’s
history, according to observers, and a step toward the construction of
democracy—despite a campaign of
Harper’s magazine reported in January that the Miller Brewing Company spends
$150,000 each year to endow its Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund—and $300,000 to
The front lines of the culture wars shifted to Cincinnati this fall, and as is so often the case
in wars of all kinds, truth was the first casualty.
The battlefield this time was a c
The Clinton administration has dropped hints that it may be
backing off its support for exiled Haitian President
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, but members of the U.S.
On the third anniversary of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's landslide election to
the presidency, 16 U.S.
For some religious leaders, spending hundreds of dollars for Christmas
gifts - ostensibly to honor the birth of one who had "no place to lay his head"
- is not merely ironic, it's sinful.
The U.S. government took hundreds of thousands of square miles from native
people. In a recent ceremony in Alaska, the church gave a small portion of that
land back.
While many denominations across the globe have opened the door to the
ordination of women, none have taken as resolute an action for equality as the
Lutheran bishops of Sweden.
The Mennonite Central Committee is launching a project
to rid northern Laos of unexploded bombs dropped by U.S. planes during the
Vietnam war.
During the 1960s, Jesse Helms, then a TV-station executive in Raleigh, North Carolina, delivered nightly editorials decrying the "special rights" sought by participants in the civil rights movement
