The Garden Witness

Adios, marytheapostle.org

2011-09-23T17:41:00.000-07:00

Well, we decided to let our domain registration lapse for marytheapostle.org. As little traffic as it received it was not worth the financial investment (A big thanks to our dear friend Rob for supporting it for 5 years!). This blog also gets little use. As you can see this is the first post in a couple of years, but at least it's free. Perhaps we'll get more use out of this in the near future.

While I'm here, I'd like to post a few links I think you should check out:

http://www.catholicworkerjournal.com/
http://www.monasteriesoftheheart.org/
http://radicalgospelliving.owu.edu/about.html

Peace,
matthew

Holy Thursday at the DoE

2009-06-03T05:33:00.000-07:00

Roots and Realities in Mexico: The Shadows of US Policy and Wisdom in the Fight for Freedom

2009-03-31T05:34:00.000-07:00

We hope you and your friends, coworkers, family and classmates will attend the first of our free monthly meals and discussions on matters of conscience, social justice, faith and alternatives for a better world. Come prepared to enjoy good food and fellowship and with open hearts and minds to engage challenging topics and fresh perspectives.

This month, a special Friday evening discussion with Robert Saper. A 2005 graduate of Gannon University, Rob recently concluded over two years of policy analysis and educational leadership with Witness for Peace in Oaxaca, Mexico. We are honored to have him share his experiences as part of our first clarification of thought.

Topics to be covered:

-How US trade policy causes inequality and immigration
-Impacts of the global food crisis
-Secretive corporate trade and military negotiations
-The border and effects of the War on Terror
-Repressing social movements in the War on Drugs
-Putting solidarity into action
-Food, autonomy and economy at the heart of change
-The creative responses of poor Mexicans
-Immigrant rights
-Why it all matters in our community

On Facebook? See http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=61442481546

Earth Force Kick-off - BLOCK PARTY!

2008-06-11T06:53:00.000-07:00

Hey we know this is short notice but if anybody is interested in stopping by this afternoon, we're hosting a block party for the kick-off of our Earth Force summer program. There'll be free food (for all) and activities for the kids.

Place: MACW - 621 East 22nd St, Erie
Time: 4pm -7pm

Call 814.459.2529 with any questions. Peace.

HOLY MISCHIEF

2008-05-21T06:31:00.000-07:00

HOLY MISCHIEF

Shane Claiborne

This past weekend marks the 40 th anniversary of the historic action of the Catonsville 9 (check out http://www.jonahhouse.org/catonsville40/index.htm ). On May 17, 1968, nine men and women entered the Selective Service Offices in Catonsville, Maryland, removed several hundred draft records, and burned them with homemade napalm in protest against the war in Vietnam. The nine were arrested and, in a highly publicized trial, sentenced to jail. Listen to the words spoken by Fr. Daniel Berrigan on that day:

"Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise."

It is acts of courage like this that the prophets were known for. And jailed for. They are an invitation to interrupt injustic with grace. They are an invitation to live with prophetic imagination. These are the kind of prophets who don't just try to predict the future – they try to change it.

One of those contemporaries of the Catonsville action is here with us in Philadelphia – Sister Margaret (we tell her story in our new book Jesus for President ). Sister Margaret is one of our wisest—and wildest—elders. Some years back, she and some other Christians felt moved by the Spirit to enact some of the prophecies in the Bible. They drew their own blood, which they planned to pour on the war machines as a symbolic lament of the bloodshed they create. And they had a bag full of hammers and other tools with which to begin the conversion of the things of death into the things of life. Then they showed up for a tour of a navy ship. Sister Margaret was designated to carry the tools, since she was the older nun, the least suspicious. It's hysterical to hear her so innocently tell the story of how she just went through the strict security with metal detectors and bag checkers, praying and trusting God. As she went through the checkpoint, her bulky bag got stuck on the gate, and a guard came to her aid. He took the bag from her and lifted it through the security check, and then he helped Sister Margaret, who just thanked him over and over like an innocent granny. They went onto the boat and began climbing up the ladders, up to the top of the ship. There they poured their blood onto the side of a Tomahawk missile launcher. She said it looked like a giant star. Then they prayerfully began beating on the hollow metal of the launcher. The sound of each hit of the hammer seemed to echo across the entire creation. It was sacramental. It was as if time stopped. They continued to hammer together, thud after thud reverberating. Sailors began to surround them—confused, paralyzed. Officers told the nuns to lay face down with their hands above them on the deck. And they gladly obeyed. It reminded Sister Margaret of the times the sisters would lie prostrate, face down, with outstretched hands in prayer before God. As they lay there, it began to rain, and Sister Margaret says it was like God was crying.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace. There's a beautiful text in both Micah and Isaiah where the prophets say that the people will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. And it ends by saying that nations will not rise up against other nations, and they will not study war anymore. Peace begins not with nations but with the people of God. It is people who humanize the nations, people who follow the Human One that Daniel spoke of rising from the beasts, the Son of Man the gospels proclaim. The end of war begins with people who believe that another world is possible and that another empire has already interrupted time and space and is taking over this earth with the dreams of God. Those dreams begin with people of faith and hope who are audacious enough to be certain of what they do not see. We believe so much that we cannot help but start enacting the prophecies. As our brother Jim Wallis says, "we believe despite the evidence, and we watch the evidence change."

What if we got our best scientists to figure out a plan for converting all our B-52s into tractors?

What if people began to prayerfully take household tools onto military bases and beat the war machines into farm tools?

It has been done. And it will be done again.

We are people who believe in conversion. We believe things can be transformed into new creations.

40th Anniversary of the Catonsville 9

2008-05-18T09:06:00.000-07:00

Catonsville 9 Statement
written by Dan Berrigan, S.J.

Some 10 or 12 of us (the number is still uncertain) will, if all goes well (ill?) take our religious bodies during this week to a draft center in or near Baltimore. There we shall, of purpose and forethought, remove the 1-A files, sprinkle them in the public street with homemade napalm, and set them afire. For which act we shall, beyond doubt, be placed behind bars for some portion of our natural lives, in consequence of our inability to live and die content in the plagued city, to say "peace peace" when there is no peace, to keep the poor poor, the homeless, the thirsty and hungry homeless, thirsty and hungry.

Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.

For we are sick at heart, our hearts give us no rest for thinking of the Land of Burning Children. And for thinking of that other Child, of whom the poet Luke speaks. The infant was taken up in the arms of an old man, whose tongue grew resonant and vatic at the touch of that beauty.

And the old man spoke; this child is set for the fall and rise of many in Israel, a sign that is spoken against. Small consolation; a child born to make trouble, and to die for it, the First Jew (not the last) to be subject of a "definitive solution." He sets up the cross and dies on it; in the Rose Garden of the executive mansion, on the D.C. Mall, in the courtyard of the Pentagon.

We see the sign, we read the direction: you must bear with us, for his sake. Or if you will not, the consequences are our own. For it will be easy, after all, to discredit us. Our record is bad; trouble makers in church and state, a priest married despite his vows, two convicted felons.

We have jail records, we have been turbulent, uncharitable, we have failed in love for the brethren, have yielded to fear and despair and pride, often in our lives. Forgive us. We are no more, when the truth is told, than ignorant beset men, jockeying against all chance, at the hour of death, for a place at the right hand of the dying one.

We act against the law at a time of the Poor People's March, at a time moreover when the government is announcing ever more massive paramilitary means to confront disorder in the cities. It is announced that a computerized center is being built in the Pentagon at a cost of some seven millions of dollars, to offer instant response to outbreaks anywhere in the land; that moreover, the government takes so serious a view of civil disorder, that federal troops, with war experience in Vietnam, will have first responsibility to quell civil disorder. The implications of all this must strike horror in the mind of any thinking man.

The war in Vietnam is more and more literally brought home to us. Its inmost meaning strikes the American ghettos; in servitude to the affluent. We must resist and protest this crime.

Finally, we stretch out our hands to our brothers throughout the world. We who are priests, to our fellow priests. All of us who act against the law, turn to the poor of the world, to the Vietnamese, to the victims, to the soldiers who kill and die, for the wrong reasons, for no reason at all, because they were so ordered—by the authorities of that public order which is in effect a massive institutionalized disorder.

We say: killing is disorder, life and gentleness and community and unselfishness is the only order we recog- nize. For the sake of that order, we risk our liberty, our good name.

The time is past when good men can remain silent, when obedience can segregate men from public risk, when the poor can die without defense. We ask our fellow Christians to consider in their hearts a question which has tortured us, night and day, since the war began. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? How long must the world's resources be raped in the service of legalized murder? When, at what point, will you say no to this war? We have chosen to say, with the gift of our liberty, if necessary our lives: the violence stops here, the death stops here, the suppression of the truth stops here, this war stops here.

We wish also to place in question, by this act, all suppositions about normal times, about longings for an untroubled life in a somnolent church, about a neat time-table of ecclesiastical renewal which in respect to the needs of men, amounts to another form of time serving.

Redeem the times! The times are inexpressibly evil. Christians pay conscious, indeed religious tribute, to Caesar and Mars; by the approval of overkill tactics, by brinkmanship, by nuclear liturgies, by racism, by support of genocide. They embrace their society with all their heart, and abandon the cross. They pay lip service to Christ and military service to the powers of death. And yet, and yet, the times are inexhaustibly good, solaced by the courage and hope of many. The truth rules, Christ is not forsaken.

In a time of death, some men —the resisters, those who work hardily for social change, those who preach and embrace the unpalatable truth— such men overcome death, their lives are bathed in the light of the resurrection, the truth has set them free. In the jaws of death, of contumely, of good and ill report, they proclaim their love of the brethren. We think of such men, in the world, in our nation, in the churches; and the stone in our breast is dissolved; we take heart once more.

For more information see http://www.jonahhouse.org/

Vigil to End the War in Iraq

2008-03-17T03:52:00.000-07:00

Join us in our 24-hour vigil marking the fifth anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Our prayer and fasting is an act of repentance for the sin of this war and an act resisting the powers of darkness. We believe this is especially necessary this year as the anniversary falls in the midst of Holy Week.

At least one person is committed to prayer for every hour through the night. Come whenever you can and stay for as long as you wish.

We will begin in prayer at 7pm on Tuesday March 18 and end with a communal prayer and a simple soup supper at 7pm on Wednesday March 19.

Event Info

Name:Vigil to End the War in Iraq
Prayer, Fasting, Repentance, Resistance
Host:Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker
Start Time:Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 7:00pm
End Time:Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 7:00pm
Location:Mary the Apostle House
Street:621 East 22nd Street
City/Town:Erie, PA
Email: matthew_ochalek@riseup.net

Newsletter Ready for Distribution

2008-03-04T07:42:00.000-08:00

The Garden Witness, Volume 1 Issue 1, Winter 2007-2008 is now available.

If you would like to be added to our mailing list please send your address via email to matthew_ochalek@riseup.net.

We look forward to sharing a bit of our lives, some Catholic Worker thought and history, and general information regarding the struggle for justice and peace throughout the world.

Five Years Too Many

2008-03-04T07:36:00.000-08:00

“Five Years Too Many”

a peace event in Erie…

… to mark five years since U.S. invaded Iraq

Massive Rally and March

Sunday, March 9th

* 1:30 p.m. -- Rally & speakers at gazebo on Perry Square
* 2 p.m. -- March behind U.S. military veterans to St. Patrick’s Cauley Center, 215 East 4th St.
* 3:00 p.m. in Cauley Auditorium, learn about the war’s costs; hear views of candidates for PA D-3 on ending the war.

If you’re concerned about the Iraq war’s toll, come and stand up with others who say:

“Five years are enough!”

Families, youth, and seniors can take part in this public statement: the American people demand an end to the Iraq war!!

Candidates for Congress will tell you where they stand on pulling our troops out of Iraq

Update

2007-08-17T07:13:00.000-07:00

As we approach our first anniversary here at Mary the Apostle House, we can look back and see a lot of progress. Here is an excerpt from our paper newsletter (which is approaching publication):

We could not have done all we have accomplished in our first year by ourselves. For the many of you who have helped us on our way, Thank you!

Here is a short round up. In the past ten months, we purchased a house in such poor condition a bank refused to give us a mortgage; replaced a leaky portion of the roof; removed over 35 cubic yards of trash carpet, broken furniture, shattered windows, and more. We have replaced six windows, two doors, and painted the interior of the house. We also have lain new carpet and vinyl floor. Our new front porch is currently under construction. Also underway is a quite necessary rewiring of the whole house.

It has been equally enjoyable and stressful recovering our home from its broken past and creating a place of hope, joy, and peace.

Other than each of our members maintaining a full time job and renovating our house, we have been engaging in witness against the crimes of the American Empire from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Iraq and our own broken cities. We seek to share the good news of nonviolence and create a new world without greed and violence and war.

Please help the Simple Way

2007-06-29T06:33:00.000-07:00

Friends,

Last week a tragic fire struck the neighborhood in which the Simple Way community lives. Their community center and many homes were destroyed. To learn more, see the video below and visit www.thesimpleway.org.

Peace.

Direct Action to Stop the War in Iraq

2007-03-21T06:51:00.000-07:00

Members of the Erie Peace Initiative arrived at the Federal Building in Erie around 8:15 am on Monday, March 19, 2007. We held short vigil during which we read our statement to the media and to our supporters and provided individual participants to share their thoughts on the days action. After singing “Peace, Salaam, Shalom,” nine of us departed from the vigil and approached the door of the Federal Building.

We had previously informed the US Marshals at the building that we were planning the action and they were prepared for us. They only let two of us in and then locked the doors. I read our statement in the foyer and they asked us to leave. We declined and instead asked that they close the building for the day to honor those killed by the war in Iraq. Our seven friends who were left outside attempted to block the doors while we on the inside blocked the metal detector.

The marshals knocked us around a bit as we blocked the metal detector. We were forcibly moved and then would calmly walk back to our place. This happened 3-4 times. After about twenty minutes, the marshals at the door received orders to unlock the doors. We motioned to the seven outside to come in. They were surprised to have the doors unlocked but entered and brought with them a reporter and photographer from the Erie Times-News.

We created a human barricade and stopped a couple of folks from entering. As we were explaining our action and inviting them to join us in the line the marshals shoved, kneed and pulled the three of us directly in front of the metal detector (Tuesday’s Erie Times-News printed a photo of us being knocked around by US Marshals).

After approximately 90 minutes, the marshals arrested us with assistance from the Erie City Police. We were split up and placed in holding cells for two and a half hours before being taken before Chief U.S. Magistrate Judge Susan Paradise Baxter and charged with “unnecessarily obstructing public areas such as entrances, foyers.” We were released shortly after 1:00pm on our own recognizance.

We will appear before Judge Baxter again Tuesday, March 27, 2007 at 10:00 am.

The White Rose

2007-03-13T06:41:00.000-07:00

"Everywhere and at all times of greatest trial [women and] men have appeared, prophets and saints who cherished their freedom, who preached the One God and who with [God's] help brought the people to the reversal of their downward course. [Humankind] is free, to be sure, but without the true God [humankind] is defenseless against the principle of evil... We must attack evil where it is strongest, and it is strongest in the power of Hitler... We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will not leave you in peace." (adjusted for gender-inclusivity)

These words appeared on a leaflet in Munich, Germany in 1942. Outraged by the evil works of Hitler's regime and driven by their Christian faith, siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl led a clandestine organization of university students, the White Rose, in confronting the Nazi system and destroying the illusion of unanimous consent among the German people.

This generation is in desperate need of its own White Rose. Yes, the public opinion has turned against the war in Iraq. Yes, people on occasion march or demonstrate against war. But all too often these few return to their normal lives without any consideration of their participation in the systems which fuel the flames of war. Their resistance is nominal. It does not sink into the heart and the spirit.

They return to their stock portfolios, funding the war machine by their very investments. They do not even think of the farm workers who cry out for justice as they eat or for the earth in desperate need of restoration as they drive their SUVs. They choose not to see and help their neighbors in need, choosing instead to blame the government for doing nothing.

Yes, we need our own White Rose. We need more than marches. We need grassroots media freed from the slavery of corporate sponsorship. We need whispers in the dark shadows and shouts from the rooftops announcing the good news of peace and justice and true freedom - not the empty patriotic sentiment, but the freedom of all those whose allegiance is to the kingdom of God.

The evils of power and violence and greed must be stopped. In the days of the White Rose, these evils were found in the Nazi regime. We must take an honest look at ourselves and this nation and confront evil where it will be found. It cost the Scholls their lives. It cost Jesus his life. It may cost our own lives. Nevertheless, this is our calling.

Now is the moment. Now is the time. This is the day of our salvation. Wherever we are, let us begin.

Fr. Tex - Presente!

2007-02-26T06:06:00.000-08:00

Reverend John J. "Tex" Hilbert

The Reverend John J. "Tex" Hilbert ERIE, PA - The Reverend John J. "Tex" Hilbert, 72, a priest of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Erie, died on Thursday, February 22, 2007. Born March 16, 1934 in Erie, he was the son of the late Joseph M. "Tex" and Mary E. McKenna Hilbert. Father Hilbert graduated from St. John grade school in Erie in 1948 and from Cathedral Preparatory School, Erie, in 1952. He attended Gannon College and St. Mark Seminary in Erie from 1952 to 1954 and then earned his bachelor's degree at St. Mary Seminary and University in Baltimore, Md., in 1956. He completed his seminary studies at Catholic University in Washington, DC in 1960. He received an M.A. from Catholic University in 1962. He was ordained a priest on May 26, 1960 at St. Peter Cathedral in Erie by Auxiliary Bishop Edward McManaman. His home parish at the time of ordination was St. Luke parish in Erie. Father Hilbert was assigned to teach at Gannon College from 1960 to 1963, assisting at St. Ann parish, Erie. From 1963 to 1964, he was assigned as Assistant Superintendent of Schools. He served as the diocesan Director for the Apostleship of Prayer for many years. Beginning in 1963 and for the next 23 years, he served in the diocesan Religious Education Office as Assistant Director from 1963 to 1964, and as Director from 1964 to 1986. He received numerous national recognitions for his service. He served as diocesan Director of Campus Ministry from 1963 to 1981. During these years, he resided at St. John the Baptist parish, Erie, from 1963 to 1968, and at Mercyhurst College from 1968 to 1986. He also served as chaplain to Mercyhurst College from 1968 to 1972. He was active in the Knights of Columbus, serving as chaplain both at the local chapter level and at the state level. From 1973 to 1986, he served as the diocesan representative to the Education Department of the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference. In 1986, Fr. Hilbert was appointed pastor of St. Mark the Evangelist parish in Lawrence Park, where he served until 1999. In 1999, he was named chaplain to Mercyhurst College's North East campus with residence at the main campus, serving there until his death. In 1963, he served as one of two spiritual directors for the first Cursillo weekend ever held in the Diocese of Erie, and from 1964 until his death, he served as the diocesan Spiritual Director of the Cursillo Movement. He had a profound influence on the Cursillo Movement in the Diocese of Erie, and on the countless cursillistas who have participated in the movement. In 1999, he became the diocesan delegate to the C.A.L.L. program (Congregational Action to Lift Lives), which he had been instrumental in helping to establish to speak out against racial discrimination and social injustice in the Erie area. He served several times as president or vice-president of C.A.L.L. He continued as diocesan delegate until his death. He was also a member of the board of Invest Erie. Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by dear friends, Margaret "Peg" O'Connor, Missy O'Connor, and Adam Bowser. He is survived by a brother, William M. Hilbert, Sr., and his wife, Martha, of Erie; two sisters, Sr. Phyllis Hilbert, SSJ and Midge Hilbert Klebes, both of Erie; eight nieces and nephews, William M. Hilbert, Jr. and his wife, Rebecca, Kathie Hickey and her husband, Brian, John L. Hilbert and his wife, Nancy, Joseph M. Hilbert, Daniel H. Klebes, II and his wife, Yasuko, Mary Therese Dinga and her husband, Michael, Heidi M. Burton and her husband, Brian, Michael J. Klebes and his wife, Kathy; 12 great-nieces and nephews also survive; a dear cousin, Patricia Todd, and her husband, Banis; and close friends, Ann O'Connor Bowser and her husband, George, Maggie, Ruthie, and Colleen Bowser, Michael O'Connor and his wife, Lori, and their children, Claire, Seamus and Liam O'Connor, and Dr. Paulette Hahn and her husband, Scott Pifer, and Timothy Hahn. Friends may call on Sunday, February 25 at the Francis V. Kloecker Funeral Home, 2502 Sassafras St., Erie, from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m., and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Monday, February 26 friends may call at St. Mark the Evangelist Church, 695 Smithson Ave., Lawrence Park, from 2 p.m. to 5: p.m. and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. On Tuesday, February 27, friends may call at St. Peter Cathedral, 230 W. 10th St., from 9:30 a.m. until the Mass of Christian burial there at 11 a.m. Burial will be at Calvary Cemetery, Erie. Memorials may be made to the Erie Cursillo Movement or to C.A.L.L., both at 204 W. 6th St., Erie, PA 16507. Send condolences to www.kloeckerfuneralhome.com. Sign the guestbook at www.GoErie.com/obits.
Published in the Erie Times-News from 2/24/2007 - 2/26/2007

Fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq

2007-02-17T06:09:00.000-08:00

March for Peace

To honor the fallen - US and Iraqis -
Sunday, March 18, 2007
3:00pm

Gather at Perry Square
March through downtown Erie

After four years of war in Iraq
we the people say, ENOUGH!

Bring the troops home NOW!
No more troop deployment
No permanent bases
Increase funding for Iraq vets

Challenge:

One marcher for each US soldier killed in Iraq

Sponsored by Erie Peace Initiative

Mary the Apostle House Opens in Erie

2006-12-20T15:21:00.000-08:00

After much discernment, searching and a couple small miracles, we are happy to announce the opening of Mary the Apostle House.
Located in Erie’s former Polish neighborhood of 22nd by Ash, members of the Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker live with our neighbors struggling against the demons of poverty, drugs and violence.
The patron of our Catholic Worker is Mary of Magdala, the “apostle to the apostles.” We have chosen Mary the Apostle, or perhaps she has chosen us, as a sign of solidarity with the poor who are cast off without adequate care from church or state. Mary too cast her lot with the poor, particularly a poor, wandering, first century rabbi we call Jesus.
Mary was a witness to the torture and death of Jesus, a faithful disciple to the end, even while the others fled. We are also witnesses to violence and death—corporal and spiritual— in our neighborhood and city.
However, hope is not lost. Mary’s faithfulness brought her to witness the joy of Christ’s resurrection. We pray that we may be faithful in our home, so that we may witness the little resurrections around us each day.
Much work has been done to restore our house since we first moved in at the end of August, 2006. A portion of the roof has been replaced; all the carpet and flooring has been removed and is in the process of being replaced (with much gratitude for donated materials and labor). We have come a long way but still have more work to do. We must finish our kitchen and pantry before we can put our dream of sharing food with our neighbors into action.
We have begun in prayer, inspired by monasticism which has been part of the Catholic Worker since its conception and also in solidarity with many communities of the new monasticism.

Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker

2006-12-13T14:19:00.000-08:00

We've just opened... and have just signed up for this blog thing. More to come. Please check back soon.

Peace.

"Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system." - Dorothy Day

The Garden Witness

Adios, marytheapostle.org

Holy Thursday at the DoE

Roots and Realities in Mexico: The Shadows of US Policy and Wisdom in the Fight for Freedom

Earth Force Kick-off - BLOCK PARTY!

HOLY MISCHIEF

HOLY MISCHIEF

Shane Claiborne

40th Anniversary of the Catonsville 9

Catonsville 9 Statement written by Dan Berrigan, S.J.

Vigil to End the War in Iraq

Newsletter Ready for Distribution

Five Years Too Many

Update

Please help the Simple Way

Direct Action to Stop the War in Iraq

The White Rose

Fr. Tex - Presente!

Fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq

Mary the Apostle House Opens in Erie

Mary the Apostle Catholic Worker

Catonsville 9 Statement
written by Dan Berrigan, S.J.