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Lesson learned
Cathleen Kaveny is correct: "Not only is torture immoral, it doesn't work" ("Bad Evidence," September 12). In 1962, when I was a chaplain in...
Commonweal, 10/10/08 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
Suffering with Christ
Thank you for John Wilkins's moving piece on suffering ("Hope Without Illusion," August 15). Suffering has always been a mystery to me. Indeed, it...
Commonweal, 09/12/08 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
A shared hope
In his review of Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger's The Promise ("Sibling Rivalries," January 18), Michael Peppard asks how we can "share in Israel's...
Commonweal, 02/29/08 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
What Catholics could learn from the Mennonites: the historic peace church offers an inspiring example of community
A few years ago when I taught at the University of Notre Dame, I gave a talk at nearby Goshen, Ind., to a Mennonite college about peace and...
National Catholic Reporter, 12/22/06 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
Muslims offended
* It's astonishing that Muslims all over the world are offended by Pope Benedict's remarks that Islam has strains of violence, particularly the...
National Catholic Reporter, 09/29/06 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
Doctrinal development
Cathleen Kaveny neglects to mention that the church permitted torture as a method of truth telling as late as the nineteenth century. Today all...
Commonweal, 08/11/06 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
The church lives in the time of its advent
Many are disturbed by the idea that the universal Christ, the One of all times and places, could take existence in a man localized at a particular...
National Catholic Reporter, 11/25/05 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
Reactions to Fr. Cushing
* Isn't it the strangest phenomenon that Bishop J. Kevin Boland of Savannah, Ga., punishes Ft. Robert Cushing for acting and speaking out on the...
National Catholic Reporter, 09/09/05 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
Destructive criticism
At this late date, I do not understand why Commonweal is still carping about the war in Iraq ("Unnatural Disasters"). Instead of exploring what the...
Commonweal, 02/11/05 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication -
Christmas in wartime
* Before the insane season begins with billions spent on goods most people don't need in a consumer society, may I simply draw attention to the...
National Catholic Reporter, 12/10/04 by Peter J. Riga · More from publication
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