“I’ll never forget one of the last times I saw her. I can still see her, sitting in that chair in the corner and saying, ‘why does it take so long to die?’”—Dr...
Author - Renée Roden
In Their Own Words is a new web column from U.S. Catholic. In these essays, academics and other experts provide short, evidence-based explanations of prominent...
Dorothy Day: Radical Devotion By Jeffry Odell Korgen (Paulist Press, 2024) Dorothy Day wrote at least three autobiographies, and there are more than twice as...
In the foothills of British Columbia’s Rocky Mountains, about two miles north of the border with the United States, there is a small commune known as Hardy...
If you suffer from high blood pressure, read Walt Bogdanich and Mike Forsythe’s When McKinsey Comes to Town (Doubleday) with caution and in small doses. The...
Imagine you have just read something about Servant of God Dorothy Day. Perhaps you recently rode a Staten Island ferry that bore her name. Maybe you saw Pope...
Readings (Year A): Deuteronomy 7:9 – 10, 13 – 14Psalms 97:1 – 2, 5 – 6, 92 Peter 1:16 – 19Matthew 17:1 – 9 Reflection:...
Julia Erdlen remembers the first time she saw bread baked in her kitchen become the body of Christ at the altar. “The first time the presider held up the host...
