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Eli McCarthy

Eli McCarthy teaches at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in theology and religious studies, as well as justice and peace studies. He also serves as a Just Peace Fellow for the Franciscan Action Network and on the steering committee of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative, a project of Pax Christi International. He is the Director of Programs for the D.C. Peace Team, which offers training in nonviolent communication, restorative justice, bystander intervention and deploys unarmed civilian protection units.

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A Palestinian boy stands by the bodies of relatives killed in the Israeli bombardments of the Gaza Strip in front of the morgue of the Al Aqsa Hospital in Deir al Balah Feb. 24. (AP/Adel Hana)

It is time for US Catholics to take significant risks for Gaza

Jesus calls us beyond the logics of proportional violence, in large part because it generates cycles of trauma and violence. It is critical that Catholics take a stand and with Jesus say, "Enough!"

A bird sits on a cross amid newly made graves at a cemetery near Mariupol, Ukraine, May 15. (CNS/Reuters/Alexander Ermochenko)

Pope Francis, Ukraine and effective nonviolent resistance

In addressing the violence of Russia's war against Ukraine, the pope is trying to shift our gaze. It is a shift that Jesus models, toward pastoral accompaniment and a focus on how we might break the violent dynamic.

Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is seen during a virtual press conference Jan. 11 to discuss his pastoral letter on the growing need for nuclear arms disarmament. (CNS screengrab/YouTube, Archdiocese of Santa Fe)

Wester's powerful letter part of hopeful trend: bishops arguing for nonviolence

Perspective: We don't always hear about Catholic bishops drawing us to the active nonviolence of Jesus. Yet, a pattern is emerging, especially with Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester's recent pastoral letter urging nuclear disarmament.

A girl in Daraa, Syria, looks out from a bullet-riddled bus July 9, 2017. Syria's civil war has now entered its 10th year. (CNS/Reuters/Alaa Al-Faqir)

Francis' 'Fratelli Tutti' weaves the threads of nonviolence and just peace

Commentary: The recent encyclical by Pope Francis, Fratelli Tutti, offers a critical step toward the illumination of nonviolence and a just peace moral framework, breaking down the old concept of "just war."

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