John Heagle is a member of the Gospel Nonviolence Working Group for the Association of United States Catholic Priests (AUSCP) and the author of Justice Rising (Orbis, 2010).
As we prepare for the National Eucharistic Congress in 2024, something is missing, says Fr. John Heagle, who urges the U.S. bishops to reclaim the Gospel vision and early Christianity's practice of nonviolent love.
Lent is less about individual penance, and more about communal conversion, and the conversion most needed is to work for the elimination of nuclear weapons, says Fr. John Heagle.
Commentary: A group of U.S. priests have proposed a new eucharistic prayer that reflects a shift away from the just war theory and toward reclaiming the message and ministry of the nonviolent Christ.
Commentary: Delusional cult leaders create delusional followers. In the televised scenes of the Jan. 6 attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol, we saw alarming images of this "collective delusion" in our national psyche.
