“Building something new”: New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden
Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organisation. FIONA MURPHY, of Religion News Service, reports…
Sight-Seeing: The Bible suggests even God gets lonely. Why don’t religious people talk more about it
There is much to be learned from loneliness: prophecy, solidarity, fun, freedom – even creativity, writes DWIGHT LEE WOLTER in an article first published on Religion News Service…
Sight-Seeing: What does it mean to be holy?
US Catholic commentator THOMAS REESE says it is not easy to be a follower of Jesus and that anyone who thinks it is, is simply not listening to Him…
Tom Cornell, Catholic worker and Dorothy Day lieutenant, dies at 88
United StatesRNS Tom Cornell, the longtime Catholic pacifist who humbly referred to Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day as “my spiritual mother”, died on 1st August in a hospital near the Peter Maurin Catholic Worker farm that he helped run with his family in Marlboro, New York, where he lived with his wife of 58 years, […]
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 […]
Postcards: On LA’s Skid Row, Catholic Worker’s ‘Hippie Kitchen’ adjusts to COVID-19
ALEJANDRA MOLINA, writing for Religion News Service, reports on how a Catholic Worker soup kitchen continues to feed people in need in Los Angeles…
SAINTS OF PAST AGES: DOROTHY DAY
In an article first published on The Conversation, US scholar SANDRA YOCUM looks at the life of Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement…