In the first half of the 20th century, when the church at least seemed more organized, an inquiring Catholic could draw on an organizational chart of the...
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This article originally appeared in the July 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic. One day a man named Macarius quit climbing the corporate ladder and retired to the...
By Bishop Robert Morneau This article appeared in the June 1999 issue of U.S. Catholic (Vol. 64, No. 6, pages 34-37). Some years ago I came across a poem by...
One morning a several years back I had occasion to call a neighboring parish, the name of which is All Souls. Not having the number handy, I dialed information...
Can you think of a word that describes a person who devoted much of her life to being with people many of us cross the street to avoid? Who for half a century...
The Day of the Dead, November 2, is a time of cemetery and church visits, home altars to the dead, special foods—including candy in the shape of skulls and...
Suspended from the kitchen ceiling in my home is a metal contraption from which my wife dangles wicker baskets, wooden spoons, metal pots, and handmade cloth...
Dorothy Day was 8 when her family moved into a tenement flat over a tavern on Chicago’s South Side. It was a big step down for the Day family. They had been...
First of all, Dorothy Day taught me that justice begins on our knees. I have never known anyone, not even in monasteries, who was more of a praying person than...
A group of Christians gathers at the Nevada test site to witness against the folly of nuclear weapons. In their prayers, before some of them are arrested, they...
