Patrick O'Neill

 A Ministry of Risk chronicles 44 years of Philip Berrigan's writings about his life of nonviolent activism, in which he spent more than 11 years in jail and prison for actions opposing war and nuclear weapons. 

A now former Catholic priest was removed from his parish after going to Japan to apologize for the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. Now he is back in Japan as part of a pilgrimage of local U.S. Pax Christi leaders.

Atlanta's progressive Catholic community has been celebrating the life of Msgr. Henry Gracz, who died Feb. 5. Gracz championed the inclusion of Catholics of all stripes at downtown Atlanta's Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

Catholic peace and environmental activist Helen Dery Woodson, whose bold actions befuddled both the judicial system and often her fellow peace activists, died Dec. 2 at age 80.

Disagreements between the longtime president of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee and his staff became more volatile, leading to a polarizing campaign for union leadership. NCR spoke to union members and supporters.

Presentation Sr. Mary Dennis Lentsch died Aug. 13, two years after she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Lentsch spent months in jails and prisons for crossing lines and hopping fences to protest war and nuclear weapons.

Commentary: Forty years after a massive nuclear disarmament march in New York, the threat of the use of nuclear weapons has never been greater, with the stakes raised due to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

Like the court, which imprisoned me and protected Trident, the Knights of Columbus sanctioned me for breaching human law, rather than embracing me for being obedient to God's law.

The yearlong COVID-19 lockdown has been severe for the nation's prisoners, who are isolated without visits, sacraments or vaccines, Patrick O'Neill of the Kings Bay Plowshares writes from the inside.

Calling sex abuse a "horrible crime," Bishop Luis Zarama dropped to his knees on the church's behalf to ask forgiveness during a reparation Mass celebrated Sept. 25 at Raleigh, North Carolina.