Father Kabat, who called himself “a fool for Christ,” spent more than 17 of his 88 years in prison for his activism against the U.S. nuclear weapons program. He died on Aug. 4.
Five months after the "Plowshares Eight" performed a peace witness at the G.E. plant in King of Prussia, Pa., its members—including the Rev. Carl Kabat—were found guilty of burglary, criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy. Father Kabat is profiled here.
Pope Francis has not weighed in on the new show. (As he doesn’t watch television, this is not unexpected.) But on his behalf, we have a couple of notes we’d like to share from a Catholic perspective.
Must art always promote a particular idea or ideology? Jed Perl argues that “the artist in the act of creation must stand firm in the knowledge that art has its own laws and logic.”