Carole Sargent

Carole Sargent

Carole Sargent writes about Roman Catholic sisters, especially those active in nuclear disarmament, and she is an Associate of the Sacred Heart (RSCJ). She is the author of Transform Now Plowshares: Megan Rice, Gregory Boertje-Obed, and Michael Walli (Liturgical Press), which the National Catholic Reporter reviewed in September 2022, and two books for Farrar, Straus & Giroux. With Jesuit Fr. Drew Christiansen, she co-edited the award-winning A World Free from Nuclear Weapons: The Vatican Conference on Disarmament (2020) and Forbidden: Receiving Pope Francis's Condemnation of Nuclear Weapons (2023), both from Georgetown University Press. Since 1997, she has worked at Georgetown University, where she guides faculty to research publication.

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Members of the Kings Bay Plowshares — from left, Martha Hennessy, Mark Colville, Clare Grady, Carmen Trotta, Patrick O'Neill and Liz McAlister — stand outside the U.S. District Courthouse in Brunswick, Georgia, on Oct. 24, 2019, just after the trial on charges related to their 2018 protest against nuclear weapons. (Wikimedia Commons/Bones Donovan)

The War Resisters League just turned 100. Here's a history of its Catholic ties.

2023 marked the 100th anniversary of the country's oldest secular pacifist organization, the War Resisters League. In that time, this nonreligious group has seen its fair share of Catholic activism.

William Peter Blatty, left, speaks with actors Ellen Burstyn and Jason Miller on the set of "The Exorcist" in 1973. (Newscom/Warner Bros./Hoya Productions)

'The Exorcist' film at 50 years: A look at the life of its Catholic writer

William Peter Blatty felt that the success of "The Exorcist" hijacked his identity, but Carole Sargent also believes there is more of Blatty's internal world in the book and film than meets the eye.

The Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate and the International Union of Superiors General facilitate a monthly exchange of data for elder care. Key participants include, from left: Sr. Candida Mukundi of the Assumption Sisters of Nairobi; Sr. Bibiana Ngundo of the Little Sisters of St. Francis; Brenda Hernandez of the Daughters of Immaculate Mary of Guadalupe; and Fr. Luis Falcó of the Missionaries of the Holy Spirit. (Courtesy of CARA)

Catholic sisters connect across continents to improve care for older members

As the conversation about ill and aging members of women's religious communities continues worldwide, a monthly information exchange between Catholic sisters in Nairobi and Mexico City is making a tremendous difference.

A Dongfeng-41 intercontinental strategic nuclear missiles group formation is seen Oct. 1, 2019, in Beijing. (CNS/Reuters/Weng Qiyu)

'Responsible obedience includes refusal': Drew Christiansen's legacy on conscience in a nuclear age

The late ethicist Fr. Drew Christiansen left a challenging legacy about the limits of obedience when it comes to nuclear weapons, recalls his co-editor Carole Sargent.

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Plowshares' Megan Rice, Michael Walli discuss nuclear weapons, civil 'disobedience'

Recent screenings of a documentary about Plowshares activists Sr. Megan Rice, Michael Walli and Greg Boertje-Obed, who infamously broke into the "Fort Knox of uranium," bring danger and immorality of nuclear weapons into the fore.

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