Dorothy Day Archives

If canonized, Dorothy Day would be a saint for a ‘polarized’ world

Church in the US
Nov 8, 2019

While U.S. Catholics currently claim thirteen official American saints of their own, experts at Marquette University’s Raynor Memorial Libraries are doing their part to aid efforts to determine whether that number may soon grow to include Dorothy Day.

Florida diocese seeks to help ex-offenders by showing ‘they are still loved’

Church in the US
May 31, 2019

A new ministry seeks to rehabilitate prisoners in the state with the highest incarceration rate in the world.

Dorothy Day’s closed church could still aid NY community, researcher says

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Dec 3, 2018

Selling Dorothy Day’s former New York parish to make way for luxury apartments would be a devastating blow to residents and former parishioners in a neighborhood threatened by gentrification, an American researcher said.

Plowshares activists motivated to witness to God’s call for peace

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 24, 2018

Seven Catholics, the Kings Bay Plowshares, say that the time they’ve spent in prison for breaking into a Naval base filled with nuclear submarines to protest the nuclear threat to the world is worthwhile to bring attention to the issue. However, now it seems that most people aren’t even awake to the threats surrounding us all.

Faith, fatherhood, and fiction: Exploring Myles Connolly and Dan England

Interviews
Jun 17, 2017

Catholic author Myles Connolly (1897-1964) thought that fatherhood could be a path to holiness. His daughter, in a preface to a new edition of his 1951 novel ‘Dan England and the Noonday Devil,’ said a “father is called upon to model heroic love for his family.”

Is the pro-Life movement still welcome in the anti-war movement?

Church in the US, Commentary
Jun 8, 2017

When anti-war organizations are excluding pro-life groups from their activities, it highlights the incoherence of the culture wars. What can we say about these anti-war leaders having abortion purity tests for their movements? It seems they have little or no sense of how intertwined the pro-life and anti-war movements have been and continue to be.