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Leading Articles & Editorials

No 74, Spring 2015Weeding roses in Kabul – Martha Hennessey Environmental Manifesto CW Response to Pope’s Encyclical – Bob Waldrop Editorial: Joined At The Hip Justice and The Common Good – Jim Consedine ……….Issue #74 full download (1.1mb pdf)
No 73, Pentecost 2015Restorative Justice – Building a Parallel System – Jim-Consedine Oppose the TPPA Open letter from CW to MPs 8th National CW Hui ……….Issue #73 full download (.9mb pdf)
No 72, Lent 2015Welcoming refugees and migrants – Patrick O’Connor Editorial: Stay out of Iraq – Iraq Dominican Sisters and Jim Consedine Editorial: Go to the margins – Pope Francis ……….Issue #72 full download (.5mb pdf)
No 71, Advent 2014No to the Trans Pacific Partnership – Jim Consedine NZ Workers’ Rights Eroded – Dion Martin A Plea for Safer Communication Technology – Anne Gastinger ……….Issue #71 full download (.8mb pdf)
No 70, Spring 2014Christchurch Rebuild Workers Exploited – Jim Consedine Nagasaki and Hiroshima Remembered – Jill Hawkey Everyday Prophets in Our Midst – Thomas Gumbleton ……….Issue #70 full download (.5mb pdf)
No 69, Pentecost 2014Gospel Challenge; To Be a Church of the Poor – Joshua McElwee Raising children within the CW – Susan Hurtado My Three Kidneys – Jim Consedine ……….Issue #68 full download (1.0mb pdf)
No 68, Lent 2014Editorial: Waihopai Ploughshares: Crown drops claim Is Climate Change Our Biggest Moral Issue? – Jim Consedine The Philippines – The Capture of The Children and The Nation – Shay Cullen Room for Christ – Dorothy Day Book Review: Pope Francis – Untying the Knots, Paul Vallely. Reviewer: Robert Consedine.……….Issue #68 full download (.5mb pdf)
No 67, Advent 2013Editorial: Funeral Dignity for the Poor Holy Innocents – The Forgotten Feast – Jim Consedine Our Beautiful World – Robert Consedine ……….Issue #67 full download (.6mb pdf)
No 66, Spring 2013Editorial: When Market Forces Fail A Call to Discipleship – Anne Rampa Critical Housing Crisis – Helen Gatonyl ……….Issue #66 full download (.6mb pdf)
No 65, Pentecost 2013Child Poverty — New Zealand’s Shame – Susan St John Gospel Obedience – John Dear SJ Growing up on a CW Farm – Teresa Land ……….Issue #65 full download (.9mb pdf)
No 64, Lent 2013Forgiveness – A Radical Option for Healthy Living – Jim Consedine Peace Trip to Afghanistan – Culley Palmer Saint Dorothy Day? A View from Down Under – Jim Consedine ……….Issue #64 full download (.6mb pdf)
No 63, Advent 2012The Spirituality of James K. Baxter – John Weir SM Second-Generation CW – Marissa Dowling Obituary: Kieran Gallagher-Power (1987-2012)……….Issue #63 full download (1.1mb pdf)
No 62, Spring 2012Rio – summit fishy going on… – Tony Watkins Everyday prophets are in our midst – Thomas Gumbleton A Tale of Two Cities – Jim Consedine ……….Issue #62 full download (.5mb pdf)
No 61, Pentecost 2012Editorial: Back In ANZUS Ideology or Faith – Jim Consedine The Eucharist’s New Covenant Of Non-violence – J Dear ……….Issue #61 full download (.9mb pdf)
No 60, Lent 2012Editorial: Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement A New Year of Non-violence – John Dear Trading our Sovereignty – Mary-Ellen O’Connor ……….Issue #60 full download (2.1mb pdf)
No 59, Advent 2011Editorial: Kingdom Economics Vatican endorses ‘Robin Hood’ Tax – Jim Consedine Waihopai Ploughshares Reflection – Gerard Burns ……….Issue #59 full download (700kb pdf)
No 58, Spring 2011Editorial: Earthquake Crony Capitalism Major Quake Issues – Mike Coleman The free-market quake – Fiona Farrell
No 57, Pentecost 2011Jesus’ illegal Holy Week activity – John Dear SJ Parihaka – A legacy of non-violence – Tariana Turia War – Twenty Years Too Many – Moana Cole ……….Issue #57 full download (2.3mb pdf)
No 56, Lent 2011Editorial: This Wounded City will Rise After the Quake – Cathy Harrison The Philippines: A Culture of Impunity – Corazon Miller
No 55, Advent 2010Where Are The Prophets? – Liz McAlister Anarchism and the Catholic Worker – Jim Consedine 30th Anniversary – Dorothy Day (1897-1980) – Robert Ellsberg
No 54, Spring 2010Interview:Fr Peter Murnane OP Don’t Come Monday! New labour laws – John Maynard Editorial: The Day the Earth Shook
No 53, Pentecost 2010Waihopai Wrap-up – Jim Consedine Anzac Day Sentimentalising War – Jim Consedine Is ‘Three Strikes’ Sinful?
No 52, Lent 2010Editorial: Closer US Relations A Poisoned Chalice Get out of Afghanistan – Interview with John Dear Living the Dream, St Francis CW – Annie Wilson
No 51, Advent 2009Editorial:We Are At War Forgiveness or Serial Vengeance – Jim Consedine Review: Franz Jägerstätter: Letters and Writings from Prison
No 50, Spring 2009Editorial 1: Celebrating 50 Editions – The Common Good A Green Saint – Francis of Assisi – Jim Consedine Ray Scott (1930-2009) – Jim Consedine
No 49, Pentecost 2009Editorial 1: Easter Economics A Spirituality for Today – Dorothy Day on Justice – Jim Forest Editorial 2: The Non-violent Jesus
No 48, Easter 2009Editorial: Gaza: Worse Than An Earthquake Telling the Truth – Media and the Treaty – Robert Consedine Witness to Peace in Gaza
No 47, Advent 2008Sins of the Wallet – Faith and the Financial Crisis – Jim Consedine Parihaka A Call to Non-Violence – Cecily McNeill Global Crisis and Unregulated Debt in New Zealand – Paul Dalziel
No 46, Spring 2008Warehousing the Poor: NZ’s High Imprisonment Rate – Kathy Dunstall Restorative Justice A Truly Non-Violent Alternative – Jim Consedine Catholic Worker 75th Anniversary Statement
No 45, Pentecost 2008Unmasking Waihopai – War Complicity Exposed – Jim Consedine Prayer Breaks Spiral of Violence at Waihopai – Letitia James Celebrating 75 years of the Catholic Worker – Jim Consedine
No 44, Easter 2008Editorial: Those Medals Blessed Are The Poor – Kathleen Gallagher and Jim Consedine Parihaka Day Campaign Laying to Rest – An Alternative Funeral – Jim Consedine
No 43, Advent 2007Editorial: Ruatoki in the spotlight Editorial: Parihaka Day not Guy Fawkes?A Consistent Ethic of Life – Ten Years On No Future without Forgiveness – Jim Consedine Walking the Talk – Response to Global Warming – Anne Rampa
No 42, Spring 2007Editorial: The Americas Cup Faith or Ideology – What Takes Precedence?- Jim Consedine Centenary – Te Whiti and Tohu, prophets of non-violence – Jim Consedine The Ongoing NZ Climate Change Debate – Michael Gormly The Role of Spirit in Environmental Activism – Liz Remmerswaal Hughes Editorial: Graeme White RIP
No 41, Pentecost 2007Editorial: Murder, She Said Editorial: The Bradford Law – A Step in Non-violence Confronting Australian militarism: Christian peacemakers at Pine Gap – Brian Law Pioneering Study Shows Richest 2% Own Half World’s Wealth – Robert Consedine A Reign of Terror – The Philippines Today – Sharon Rose Joy Ruiz-Duremdes What is a Catholic Worker vocation? – Jim Consedine
No 40, Lent 2007Honouring the Prophets – John Miller – A Passion for Justice HIRUHARAMA/JERUSALEM DAYBOOK – CATHOLIC WORKER HUI, Jan 21 24, 2007 Statement on Environmental Issues – Sept. 2006 from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference Growing Organic – Terrelaine Kennedy Close Waihopai Spy Base – Graeme White Climate Change Seeking the Common Good- Sean McDonagh SSC Interview: Pius Ncube, Catholic Archbishop of Matabeleland, Zimbabwe In Praise of Walking
No 39, Advent 2006Editorial: The Common Good – 10th Birthday Editorial: Bread not circuses Honouring the Prophets – John Curnow – Development Prophet Opting for the Poor – Pauline O’Regan The Dorothy Column – The Scandal of the Works of Mercy
No 38, Spring 2006Editorial: War and Peace – The Pit Stop Ploughshares Radical Love: The Way of Christ – The Common Good Editors Letter from Israel – Tiberias, Sea of Galilee – Margaret Ingram Fresh Campaign Launched – Demilitarise Shannon Airport Action at Pine Gap
No 37, Pentecost 2006Editorial: Heroic Witness: Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendal-Smith Editorial: Peacemaking in our time Corporate Capitalism : A Structure of Sin – Robert Consedine Prison: the Last Resort – Letitia James Honouring the Prophets – Kitty McKinley It’s not God’s Fault – Shay Cullen The Dorothy Column – The Pearl of Great Price Arrested for Peace – list of thousands
No 36, Lent 2006Editorial: Lazarus at the Gate – David Tutty Make Affluence History – Joseph Land Nursing in Calcutta – Kathryn Campbell CW Hui, Moria Marae, Whirinaki, January 2006 Peace on Earth: Action at Pine Gap – Jim Dowling Honouring the Prophets – Rod Donald (1957 – 2005)
No 35, Advent 2005Editorial: The Inclusiveness of Jesus Voluntary Poverty and Contemplative Action – Kathleen Gallagher Interest and Usury – Matt Vogel: NY Catholic Worker Choosing Life: Microcredit-economics On Pilgrimage – Mary Hancox Honouring the Prophets – Donna Mulhearn
No 34, Spring 2005Editorial: We Choose Non-violence Zimbawbe: the Moral Choice – Letitia James The Wonders of Biodiversity – Frank Hoffman Torchbearers – Prophets and Saints for dark times Honouring the Prophets – Marilyn Pryor, champion of the unborn
No 33, Pentecost 2005Editorial:Copping the Flak – the CW and the corporate media – Kathleen Gallagher Autumn at the Promised Land CW A Spirituality of Social Justice – Bill Quigley Around the Traps: Pope John Paul II Prophet of Peace Ireland on Trial – Carmen Trotter Irish Peace Trial Aborted Hands On Death – Kathryn Campbell Institutionalised Poverty: The Philippines – John and Leony Miller Honouring the Prophets – Archibald Baxter; a moral leader for our time
No 32, Lent 2005Editorial: Time to Apologise to Vietnam?Editorial: Faith in a Seed – the GE debate God of All Creation – Pat McMullen Passover Remembered – Alla Bozarth-Campbell Inside Lent – Ardeth Platt O.P Vatican Hijacked by GE lobby – Peter Murnane OP Seed Carriers Hikoi – Joseph Land Honouring the Prophets – Peter and Judith Land
No 31, Advent 2004US Election: Blinkered Morality – Letitia James Interview: A Protestant Reflects – Bill Wylie-Kellerman Irish Government’s Role in the Iraqi War – Ciaron O’Reilly Eh Mary – Poem by Kathleen Gallagher Honouring the Prophets – John Osmers; a Voice in Africa
No 30, Spring 2004Editorial:Wherein lies peace?Editorial:Scapegoating Private England On Modern Warfare – John Paul II, 1993 New Year Peace Message Following the Non-Violent Jesus – Emmanuel Charles McCarthy Wrecking the Public Sector – Kathleen Gallagher The Thailand – New Zealand Free Trade Agreement – John Maynard Catholic Worker National Hui, Waikanae, July 2004 Daily Bread – Barbara Corcoran Honouring the Prophets – Tom Newnham
No 29, Lent 2004Editorial: The Last Passion of Christ (the movie)Waitangi and the Foreshore – Robert Consedine Stations of the Soul – Joy Ryan-Bloore From Israel – Kibbutz Kinneret Jesus and Non-Violence – Emmanuel Charles McCarthy Diary from Baghdad – Donna Mulhearn Honouring the Prophets – Mary Baker
No 28, Advent 2003Editorial: Meeting Christ in Advent – Joy Ryan-Bloore Slow down, you move too fast! – Donella Meadows Palm Sunday Peace March Speech, Sydney Domain, 13 April 2003 On Voluntary Poverty (2) – Dorothy Day Living in the Spirit: the Story of St Francis CW Farm – Joseph and Catherine Land Around the Traps: Listening To The Animals – Graeme White Human Shield: A Diary from Baghdad – Donna Mulhearn Obituary: Bishop Antonio Fortich
No 27, Easter 2003Lenten Reflection: Imagining growing old Depleted Uranium and the People – Robert Green Honouring the Prophets: Noel Ginn Honouring the Prophets: Prophetic Women On Voluntary Poverty (1) – Dorothy Day Obituary: Phil Berrigan
No 26, Advent 2002Honouring the Prophets: Resurrected into peacemaking – Philip Berrigan The Folly of the Cross – Moana Cole For a Just peace in Palestine – NZ Catholic Bishops Conference
No 25, Spring 2002Editorial: Joan Chittister on War as Social Annihilation New Twin Towers: Justice and Development – Jim Consedine War: A Radical Repudiation – Pope John Paul II Honouring the Prophets: James K Baxter (1926-1972) – Jack Doherty
No 24, Pentecost 2002Editorial:East Timor is Free A Sinful Underbelly: the Prison System Exposed – Jim Consedine The Scandal of the Church’s Support for War – John Dear SJ Honouring the Prophets: Patrick O’Connor; Prophet of Inclusion
No 23, Lent 2002Free Trade: Is it a Religious Issue? – Jim Consedine What is Voluntary Poverty? – Nicholas Drake Honouring the Prophets: The Aranui Sisters
No 22, Advent 2001 (response to 9/11)Constructive Pacifism: Our Only Hope – Jim Consedine Even after all this… the only solution is love Reflection: Advent 2001 – Herod and Mary – Brian Terrell Christian Peacemaking: Pacifism in the Early Church – Ronald G. Musto Poem: Everywhere there are Saints Walking – Kathleen Gallagher Honouring the Prophets: Daniel Berrigan reflects on Ciaron O’Reilly
No 21, Spring 2001Editorial: The Knowledge Wave Editorial: Racism Alive and Well in NZ The Middle East: An Alternative Jewish View – Marc Ellis GE: Tampering with Creation – John Corcoran Economic Apartheid: How Western Banks are Strangling Africa – Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane Honouring the Prophets On Retreat: Transforming the Earth – Liz McAlister
No 20, Pentecost 2001Editorial:Pentecost – a call to action Editorial:Peacemakers of Peacekeepers?Winkin, Blinkin or Nod? NZ Defence changes: peace promoting or business as usual? – Alyn Ware The Dilemma of a Christian Pacifist: Kathleen Hall – Tom Newnham Restorative Justice: A Truly Non-Violent Alternative – Jim Consedine Who are the poor? What is Justice? – Bill Quigley Brief Reflection – St John of God Interview: Helen Prejean
No 19, Easter 2001Editorial: Robson supports halt to uranium munitions use The Iraq Sanctions: Not a Price Worth Paying – Moana Cole Spirituality and Social Change – Jim Consedine Utu: To Restore Honour – Henare Tate CW Spirituality – Abraham Land
No 18, Advent 2000Parihaka Non-violence: the Heart of Peaceful Resistance – Paul Reeves Dorothy writes.. Love is the Measure – Dorothy Day Usury in the Modern World – Paul Dalziel De-Politicizing Dorothy: Thoughts on the canonization of Dorothy Day – Jo Roberts Interview: Dorothy Day: Not Your Everyday Saint – Jeff Dietrich
No 17, Spring 2000Editorial: THE WAR ECONOMY – Engine room of profit and death Editorial: USURY – the rotten heart of capitalism Holding the World Hostage: the Immorality of Banking – Jim Consedine Crime is Down, Crime is Rampant: in Defiance of God, Justice, Peace – Ardeth Platte How Green is My Church? – Michael Gormly
No 16, Pentecost 2000Editorial: The Path of Non-Violence Editorial: The WTO What Kind of People Worship Here? Who is their God? – Jim Consedine No DNA Testing and other jail tales – Ciaron O’Reilly Interview: CW farmer – Jim Albertini in Hawai’i
No 15, Easter 2000Editorial: (1) Cancellation of F16 purchase by Government Editorial: (2) Ploughshares activists jailed in Baltimore Peace Witnesses Imprisoned: Ploughshares act against Depleted Uranium – Elizabeth McAlister The Path to Equality: Charity or Justice? – Pauline O’Regan Violence in Prison: One Woman’s Experience – Kathleen Rumpf

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