Claire Schaeffer-Duffy

Claire Schaeffer-Duffy, a freelance writer, lives and works at the Sts. Francis and Therese Catholic Worker in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her articles and reviews have appeared in America, Commonweal, US Catholic, the collection Nonviolence as a Way of Life: History, Theory, and Practice and Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia for US Peace and Anti-war Movements. Her profiles and investigative reporting have merited Catholic Press Awards. Claire and husband Scott have four children and three grandchildren. He runs marathons, and she, too, is still logging the miles.

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Sr. Anne Montgomery, a member of the Christian Peacemakers Team, reads outside the "Witness Against Torture" camp at the military zone boundary near the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Dec. 13, 2005. (CNS/Reuters)

Q&A with Carole Sargent and Art Laffin on the poetics of Sr. Anne Montgomery

Sr. Anne Montgomery participated in eight Plowshares actions for nuclear disarmament, each one requiring an arrest, trial, and imprisonment or probation. A new book reveals poetry by the late Religious of the Sacred Heart.

From two Dominican sisters: a master class in why the bomb is bad

For Dominican Srs. Ardeth Platte and Carol Gilbert, educators steeped in Catholic teaching on the sacredness of creation, the construction of nuclear weapons represents a fundamental error in human purpose. It is a horrendous mistake the women have devoted their lives to correcting.

Three lives for Africa: Srs. Olga Raschietti, Lucia Pulici and Bernardetta Boggian

Murders in Burundi: Missionary order reckons with killing of three sisters

Laying down new cornerstones in Detroit

Water is Life: Sister joins fight against shut-offs and privatization of Detroit water

Education: A way up for Cambodian women escaping the sex-trade

Consoling the heart of Jesus