Catholic Worker Darfur talk

Here is the audio of a talk on Darfur at Holy Cross College earlier this month by Brenna Cussen, with Scott Schaeffer-Duffy chiming in. They were part of a four-person Catholic Worker Peace Team that visited Darfur in December 2004.

I really liked part 2 of this talk, where they got into questions like: How can a pacifist respond to genocide?

Photo by Brenna Cussen
Woman in Darfur IDP camp, photographed by Brenna Cussen

Daniel Dick on Worcester’s water supply

Daniel Dick, past president of the Tatnuck Brook Watershed Association and creator of the Energy Studies curriculum at Worcester State College, talks about Worcester’s water supply. From the 2007 conference on Catholic Social Teaching at Anna Maria College, April 16, 2007.

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Saint Kermit #50: Grace Ross

In our first podcast using the live TalkShoe service, the Saint Kermit team talks about the Virginia Tech shooting and Massachusetts politics with former Green-Rainbow gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross.

[Download the mp3]

It was great to have Charlie call in and ask Grace some questions. This kind of interaction more than makes up for the sound problems we had with TalkShoe. I’m sorta bummed, though, that Saint Kermit will no longer be heavily edited to make me sound smart and quick on my feet.

“Your Right to Know” panel

I was honored to be on a televised panel about openness in government this week with T&G City Desk editor Jay Whearly, blogger/businessman Bill Randell, ADA Patricia Smith, and Vocero Hispano’s Jaime Flores. WCCA’s Mauro DePasquale was the emcee.

You can watch it on WCCA’s site or the Internet Archive.

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I’ve had positive and negative feedback on the panel, but I gotta say it was the most interesting panel about open meetings law and governmental information requests that I’ve ever participated in. I had a lot of fun.

Fr Bernie Gilgun’s homily, March 2, 2007

This is a recording of a homily by Father Bernie Gilgun, from his weekly Mass at the Mustard Seed in Worcester, Massachusetts. You can download the mp3 (4.5MB) or see other formats. You can also subscribe (RSS) to the podcast.

Reading for March 2, 2007.

Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar,
and there recall that your brother
has anything against you,
leave your gift there at the altar,
go first and be reconciled with your brother,
and then come and offer your gift.