Social Conscience

Blessed Pino Puglisi  fought the Mafia by creating community, breaking the social isolation that feeds the mob’s power. He knew his end was near.

Dan Ellsberg died on June 16, 2023 after a life of courage and conscience that exposed the lies of U.S. military leaders in the Vietnam War.

Sy Hersh, a legendary reporter who paid homage to Dan Ellsberg in his last days, said:  “More than fifty years later, he was still pondering the war as a whole, and I was still trying to understand the My Lai massacre.”

Thomas Higgins rejects Christian nationalism: One can be a Christian or nationalist, not both. “Christians worship only one God, not the state.”

Three days before President-Elect John F. Kennedy assumed the office of president in 1961, outgoing President Eisenhower reflected on his two terms and issued his memorable warning in a historic  televised Farewell Address.