Bill Ofenloch

February 7, 2020 Update to Supporters – Still Waiting for Sentencing Date

February 7, 2020

Dear Friends, We continue to wait for a sentencing date to be announced. There have been delays in getting all the necessary pre-sentencing reports done by the probation officers. The…

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Doomsday Clock Now Closer to Midnight Than Ever in Its History

February 6, 2020

Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Cite Worsening Nuclear Threat, Lack of Climate Action & Rise of “Cyber-Enabled Disinformation Campaigns” in Moving Clock Hand; Bulletin Joined by The Elders in Announcement…

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Martha Hennessy shares glimpses of her grandmother Dorothy Day’s life by Jeff Kurowski,The Compass, January 30, 2020

February 5, 2020

Martha Hennessy’s first memory of her grandmother, Dorothy Day, goes back to when she was 3 years old at the family home in Vermont. Day was visiting from New York…

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The ‘Plowshares 7’: Catholics against nuclear weapons by Alexis Buisson, La Croix International, Feb. 5, 2020

February 5, 2020

On 4 April 2018, the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., seven US Catholic activists broke into the military base at Kings Bay in the southern…

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How Dorothy Day’s granddaughter feels about facing prison time for peace activism, Jesuitical Podcast in America, Jan. 10, 2020

January 29, 2020

In April of last year, seven Catholic activists broke into the naval submarine base in Kings Bay, Ga., home to several nuclear-armed submarines. Inside, they carried out nonviolent actions to…

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Bishop Thomas Gumbleton Issues Call to Catholics: Let Us End Our Complicity in War, by Bishop Thomas Gumbleton, Common Dreams, Jan. 10, 2020

January 11, 2020

All Catholics should refuse to kill and should refuse cooperation with United States wars. Once again, information has surfaced regarding United States governmental efforts to mislead and misinform people about…

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Beating Swords into Plowshares by Patrick O’Neill, Outrider Post, January 9. 2020

January 11, 2020

On April 4, 2018, seven Catholic peace activists broke into a military base to protest nuclear weapons. What motivated them to do it? I am one of seven Catholic pacifists…

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Twin inconvenient truths: nuclear arms and climate change by Charles Geisler, NCR Jan. 10, 2020

January 11, 2020

At a time when major nuclear arms’ treaties are being orphaned and climate disruption is ballooning, many are asking if there are connections between these twin threats to Creation. The…

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ADDRESS OF THE HOLY FATHER ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS, Nagasaki, November 24, 2019

January 2, 2020

Dear Brothers and Sisters, This place makes us deeply aware of the pain and horror that we human beings are capable of inflicting upon one another. The damaged cross and…

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A 70-year-old priest is choosing to spend Christmas in a Georgia jail by Joshua Sharpe, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, December 23,2019

December 23, 2019

The Rev. Steve Kelly, or Inmate #015634 as he is known at the  Glynn County Detention Center, was arrested with other activists after a protest at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay…

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