Posts tagged "dorothy day"
Misinterpreting the Legacy of the 1960s
Part of The Revealer’s series on the John Jay report, The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010.
by Scott Korb
For a good part of the past four years, I met every other week with a former Ursuline nun – let’s call her “Josefa” – to talk...
Much Love to You Always, Dorothy
All the Way to Heaven: The Selected Letters of Dorothy Day; Marquette University Press (2011), $35
Reviewed by Jack Downey
The acclaimed Catholic University of America professor, John Tracy Ellis, once said that you can’t be a good historian unless you enjoy reading dead people’s mail. Happily for anyone who considers herself a Dorothy Day aficionado but...
Dorothy Day Day
08 December 2005 For the 25th anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day, here are two tributes. One in writing, from the editors of The New York Times, who praise Day’s “pacifism and cranky independence” as traits which survive her in the loosely-organized, but devoted, Catholic Worker’s movement, which they describe as still, truly radical,...
