Bill Ofenloch
88 Years Old Today May 1st, 2021 It is May Day, the feast day of St. Joseph the Worker, and a celebration of the dignity of work for International Workers of the World. I mopped the stairs and hall in front of the medical and psychological services office, now that I’m upstairs in quarantine for…
Read More“Personalism” Prison Reflections from Patrick O’Neill (transcribed and edited by J. Mark Davidson) May 3, 2021 Birthday Pizza A couple of nights ago, two of my friends, Sean and Tippy, surprised me with two steaming hot pizzas they made me for my birthday! They had planned to do it back in March, but I was…
Read MoreMay 2 Update: Carmen and Martha to Receive Early Release, Details on Viewing DePaul Award, May 4 & 5
Carmen Trotta and Martha Hennessy To Get Early Release, DePaul Award May 4 & 5 Viewing Details Martha Hennessy and Carmen Trotta have been told that they will be getting early release to home confinement in two weeks. Martha in Danbury FCI had requested home confinement through the CARES Act which provides for early release…
Read MoreThe Kings By Plowshares are receiving the first Berrigan-McAlister award for Gospel nonviolence from DePaul University this Tuesday and Wednesday. Dan Berrigan’s 100th birthday on May 9 will also be commemorated. All are invited to the free on-line presentations but you must register in advance at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/inaugural-berrigan-mcalister-award-tickets-147618327391 Tuesday, May 4, at 6:30pm Central Time, (…
Read MoreI won, I thought, often. Bobby Allan and I in Ms. Cooke’s fifth grade “show and tell” vied for attention with our astronaut scrapbooks. New York in 1962 had six daily newspapers plus Life and Look magazines, all with color spreads after space flights and available at the nearby newsstand of Manny’s Candy Store. Scissors…
Read MoreApril 20th, 2021 Reflections from Danbury The other evening there were eight deer in the meadow below Camp, playing in the puddles of rainwater collected on the worn spots of the softball diamond. They reminded me of the goats we kept in Vermont, running, splashing with their hooves, chasing one another. While on the phone…
Read More“Triduum 2021” Prison Reflections from Patrick O’Neill (transcribed and edited by J. Mark Davidson) April 19, 2021 Holy Thursday Excerpts from letters: “The testament of your imprisonment and continued service to God is a source of encouragement to me”; “My conscience is clear, but that doesn’t mean I’m innocent” – Sherman Lee Dillon. ”I pray…
Read MoreEaster Sunday, April 4th, 2021 3rd Anniversary of the Kings Bay Plowshares Action. – July 7th, 2017 – Treaty on the Prohibition of nuclear Weapons. Deeply concerned about the catastrophic humanitarian consequences that would result from any use of nuclear weapons, and recognizing the consequent need to completely eliminate such weapons, which remains the only…
Read MoreThe April 5 Festival of Hope for the Third Anniversary of the Plowshares action and for Mork Colville’s sentencing is available to watch on Youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx7__Pm4Tss
Read More(RNS) — The seventh and final Catholic peace activist, who three years ago broke into the King’s Bay Naval Base in Georgia to symbolically disarm its stockpile of nuclear weapons, was sentenced Friday (April 9) to 21 months in prison. Mark Colville, who runs Amistad Catholic Worker in New Haven, Connecticut, was part of the…
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