Dorothy Day, whose life was a series of seeming contradictions, might be bemused at this one: The DVD version of a documentary about her life has, more than a month before the film reaches the PBS airwaves, made it to the top spot on the Amazon documentary sales chart.
Dear Editor: Articles re: the progress of efforts made to canonize Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, have appeared in various periodicals.
For Father John Gribowich, 36, the best type of ministry is to love others. “I have a great love for the poor ever since I was in high school. I want to live the social justice mission of the church.”
Dorothy Day’s life and legacy were remembered at the University of St. Francis in Fort Wayne, Ind., as part of the events marking the school’s 125th anniversary.
Dorothy Day a saint? Many people, aware of her background, still find it hard to believe – despite a voice vote endorsement of her cause by the entire body of American bishops. How about Dorothy Day as a grandmother? That’s harder still for many others to accept with the image of Day as social activist extraordinaire firmly planted in their minds.
Late last year, I spent an evening at The Catholic Worker House, 55 East Third St. in Manhattan. I usually invite myself over to The Worker once a year to give a lecture. Whenever I go, I hope that I will have something to say that interests the 50 or 60 people who might attend. On […]
Re-reading some sections of Dr. Patrick McNamara’s wonderful book “New York Catholics: Faith, Attitude & Works!” (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2014), I have been reminded of personal encounters I had with some of the New Yorkers about whom McNamara writes. I briefly met Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker; Catherine De Hueck Doherty, founder […]
I can’t recall the first time I met Dr. Patrick McNamara. When he worked as assistant archivist for the Diocese of Brooklyn, he often had lunch at the Immaculate Conception Pastoral Center in Douglaston, where I reside. McNamara and I occasionally had lunch together and when we did, McNamara would always turn the conversation to […]
Most attention-paying U.S. Catholics are aware of the beatification causes for Archbishop Fulton Sheen and Catholic Worker co-foundress Dorothy Day.
Occasionally I offer my services to the Catholic Worker House of Hospitality on the Bowery in Manhattan by giving a lecture that I hope those who live in the House and those who attend the regular Friday evening lectures might find interesting.
