A Franciscan environmental activist recycles some ancient traditions for modern use. [Read more about St. Francis, patron of ecology.] Hundreds of years before...
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On Aug. 6, 1976 Dorothy Day was invited to address the World Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia. The date of her talk was, of course, the Feast of the...
You have spoken out strongly in favor of canonizing Dorothy Day. How is she a saint for today? Dorothy herself had a tremendous veneration for the saints. Her...
Simply defined, to sin is to say “no” to God. It is a rejection of God’s free gifts as well as the grace-filled relationship that God always offers. It is to...
We need the example of this woman who tried to live the gospel in the modern world. Imagine this: A grumpy associate pastor rushes into the sacristy to prepare...
If you want peace, cultivate creation,” Pope Benedict XVI said in his 2010 World Day of Peace reflection, arguably a message not just for the new year...
Full of Grace by Christine Watkins (Ave Maria Press, 2010) Christine Watkins grew up without religion and without a belief in God. Her parents had told her...
Crows (Rykodisc, 2010) Allison Moorer Last night I warned a college writing class against assuming that the "speaker" of a poem was in fact the poet...
From colonial times until recently, Hispanic Catholics in lands now in the United States have been on the margins of their church. During the Spanish and...
A deal that sounds too good to be true probably is-especially for subsistence farmers. Africa’s savannahs and plains, even its smoldering desert dunes...
