Torture is wrong. Violence is ineffective to bring true change. How do we move from the place of complacency into activity? What does our nonviolent peacemaking say to our government’s sanctioning of torture and pre-emptive war?

Father Louie Vitale has been grappling with these and other related questions for nearly half a century since he began his journey by enlisting in the air force as a young man, and having a conversion towards nonviolence. While all of our journeys take different paths, our hearts converge upon the commonality of Pace e Bene – Italian for “peace and all good.”

Father Louie, a Franciscan Priest, is 75 years old. He has, at a time when most men are enjoying retirement, placed himself in situations where he knew physical danger or incarceration were options because of ethics and morals. Father Louie believes too much in the good of humankind to sit back and do nothing about it. Come hear him speak.