A conversation with John Griffith
Profiled in our "Spiritual Joy" section, Griffith talks about mysticism, activism and choosing jail time over war.
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Meditation: Remembering a winter walk
Phyllis Price: "... it is our time now to go within, to gain the strength, energy and vitality so much needed when the earth comes alive again in the spring." > Read
Robert McClory: The Dutch plan
The next guest speaker for Topics to Go explores the Catholic Church in the Netherlands -- and finds innovations for the NCR. > Read
"When this passage of suffering comes to our lives it helps to have guides who have traveled that path before us, and whose lives and words can help show us the way."

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Kendall Marsden (middle front) and Vicki Kline (middle back) with Holy Family Catholic Worker director Louis Rodemann (right) and Lasallian volunteer Amado Guzman.
Catholic Worker life through young eyes
For those concerned that the next generation is unwilling to take up the cause of peace, contributor Heather McNeill introduces two Catholic Workers and Lasallian volunteers who are lights of hope.
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Memphis: Finding Dr. King & Ms. Rosser
African American history is important to all of us. The women and men who helped lead the United States out of the wilderness . . . must be remembered for their courage and wisdom. But right now Ms. Rosser is even more important, I contend. > Read
Salvadoran Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez comes to Kansas City this month to honor the life and marytrdom of Archbishop Oscar Romero 28 years ago. As migration, poverty, exploitation of worker and environment and political unrest confront the tiny country, hope and courage become its primary resources for change. > READ
Stations of the Cross of nonviolent love
St. Francis Xavier Parish hosts Fr. Emmanuel Charles McCarthy, who will present: Jesus' Way of Peace: Nonviolent Love of Friends and Enemies. > Read
Finding daily prayer in family life
I don't think there is any mistake that God choose to send Jesus to be a part of a family. Being a part of a family mirrors the relationship God shares with us. > Read
An Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI
If you kneel in grief and outrage before the cross of the tortured Christ, can you offer your blessing to a head of government who excuses the most terrible abuses of human minds and bodies as "legal?" > Read
A Christian approach to immigration
Immigration has become a political weapon, a cultural divider and a receptacle for fear. But an upcoming Catholic Worker retreat on immigration will ask us to consider the issue from  Christ's perspective. Members of No More Deaths will report on life near the border. And a wide swath of activists will open a dialogue on the issue.
Pies Cansados
On entropy and peacemaking
Peace is a decrease in entropy, it is ordered living in the absence of physical conflict. Peace is working against the increasing chaos of the cosmos. > Read
MoCRI: Not a civil rights amendment
Missouri Civil Rights Inititative petitioners are trying to gather close to 140,000 signatures by May 4 so the initiative can appear on November ballots. But the amendment would end affirmative action and other programs designed to address race- and gender-based inequalities. > Read
A 'small' green revolt: buying local
The Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition shares a sermon about what Wendell Berry called a "revolt of small local producers and local consumers against the global industrialism of the corporation." > Read
Border deaths and arrests in Kansas City
A recorded presentation by "No More Deaths"  > Listen (mp3)
On loss and blessings of a child unborn
Even house spiders became almost sacred to me. Because she might be pregnant, I couldn't throw the spider outside. All life took on a new perspective. Now I see the grace in death. > Read
A reflection on "Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?"
"the real issue is not where bin Laden might be but why and how a bin Laden ever existed in the first place." > Read
Longtime activist Henry Stoever shares this letter to the Kansas City Star about deaths of migrants on the border and why he chose to be arrested for their cause. > Read
Celebrating 150-year walk with the poor
This year, to commemorate their 150th anniversary, the sisters are reflecting on the journey that changed the course of their order's history. > READ
This is my body - abortion and Eucharist
My reason and my soul cannot escape this question: If Christ were here, bread in hand, whom would he feed? > READ
Restored world: a church grows in JoCo
Why begin a community garden on the property of a church in southern Johnson County? Maybe it's because there's a longing inside each of us that we can't quite put a finger on.> READ
Finding peace in the family meal
Photo by Steve White
Far too often I find it easier to pour the meal out of a box without much thought ...  > READ
Br. Louis: 'You go to where there is need'
Brother Louis Rodemann, director of Holy Family Catholic Worker House, recently spoke with Tom Fox at NCR Cafe. > LISTEN