In the US, two Plowshares activists win early release from prison
RNS Two of the seven Catholic peace activists who broke into a nuclear submarine base three years ago left prison this week as part of an early release agreement. Martha Hennessy, 66, grand-daughter of Catholic Worker Movement founder Dorothy Day, and Carmen Trotta, 58, a Catholic worker at St Joseph’s House in New York City, […]
In the US, Dorothy Day’s grand-daughter sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
RNS Martha Hennessy, a grand-daughter of Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was sentenced on Friday to 10 months in prison for breaking into Kings Bay Naval Base in Georgia two years ago to protest its stockpile of nuclear weapons. Hennessy’s was the lightest sentence given for the break-in at the Navy […]
NUCLEAR WEAPONS: IN THE US, SEVEN CATHOLIC ACTIVISTS ARE UNREPENTANT AS THEY AWAIT TRIAL FOR BREAKING INTO A NUCLEAR BASE
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, reports…