Chicago Network for Justice & Peace

This article is the fourth in a series examining the attacks on US higher education. Links to the previous three articles are posted at the end of this essay published 12 May 2025 in Windy City Times. The middle two essays were written collaboratively with my Loyola University Chicago colleague Arthur Lurigio. ...

Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, Chicago-born and -raised, was elected as the 267th pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church on the second day of the Vatican Conclave, May 08, 2025, which is the Feast of Our Lady of Pompeii. The Prevost family is of American Creole lineage with ancestors who were Black, French,...

This year, 2025, marks the 30th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action, the historic plan for gender equality. At this year's meeting of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW 69) at the United Nations, the focus was on what we had accomplished and where are we today in the implementing...

I am in the halls of the United Nations building in New York attending the 69th yearly sessions of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. This is the 30th time for me; for 30 years I have represented an NGO (Non-governmental Organization), PEN International, at these sessions. I am among...