Dorothy Day
New York Catholic Workers bring new growth with rooftop garden
By Fiona Murphy — April 9, 2024
(RNS) — Inspired by Pope Francis’ apostolic letter on ecology, a garden planned for the roof of the movement’s historic Maryhouse has attracted new attention to Dorothy Day’s Catholic service organization.
The Bible suggests even God gets lonely. Why don’t religious people talk more about it?
By Dwight Lee Wolter — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — There is much to be learned from loneliness: prophecy, solidarity, fun, freedom — even creativity.
The nun who became a star shares her wisdom in new book of letters
By Yonat Shimron — October 24, 2022
(RNS) — Sister Wendy Beckett's three-year correspondence with Robert Ellsberg, the publisher and editor in chief of Orbis Books, reveals a life devoted to saints, holiness, beauty, suffering and prayer.
Tom Cornell, Catholic worker and Dorothy Day lieutenant, dies at 88
By Patrick O'Neill — August 3, 2022
(RNS) — An author and lecturer, Cornell spent his life promoting nonviolence, conscientious objection and the Catholic 'Works of Mercy' that represent the core values of the Catholic Worker Movement.
Evidence of Dorothy Day’s ‘everyday’ sainthood heads to Rome, boxed and beribboned
By Renée Roden — December 9, 2021
NEW YORK (RNS) — In a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a formal sendoff for two decades of work by Day’s supporters.
Top US Catholic bishop calls social justice movements ‘pseudo-religion’
By Jack Jenkins — November 4, 2021
(RNS) — Religious leaders and people of faith played a prominent role in last year’s racial justice demonstrations after George Floyd’s murder.
His parish was the poor: The Rev. Tom Lumpkin spent 40 years ministering to Detroit’s homeless
By Renée Roden — August 4, 2021
(RNS) – ‘Living with people who have lots of problems helped me see my own dark side,’ said the Rev. Tom Lumpkin, who spent 40 years serving Detroit’s homeless.
2 Plowshares activists win early release from prison
By Yonat Shimron — May 27, 2021
(RNS) — Martha Hennessy, 66, the granddaughter of Catholic Worker Movement founder Dorothy Day, and Carmen Trotta, 58, a Catholic worker at St. Joseph House in New York City, were released after serving six months in prison for breaking into a nuclear submarine base.
Dorothy Day’s granddaughter sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
By Yonat Shimron — November 13, 2020
(RNS) — Martha Hennessy received the lightest sentence of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 — the group of Catholic pacifists who broke into the Navy base 40 miles south of Brunswick, Georgia, on April 4, 2018.
Dorothy Day defied definition. Now the potential saint is the subject of a new film.
By Yonat Shimron — March 4, 2020
(RNS) — The former journalist who founded the Catholic Worker movement was a committed Catholic who gave her life to the cause of the poor, yet also disdained government assistance.
Dorothy Day — ‘a saint for our times’
By Sandra Yocum — December 5, 2018
(The Conversation) — Dorothy Day, who died 38 years ago this week, was able to discern beauty in the midst of her harsh and demanding life. In that, she has a lesson for the times we live in.
How a group of California nuns challenged the Catholic Church
By Diane Winston — December 7, 2017
(The Conversation) — California in the 1960s was the epicenter for spiritual experimentation. And among those looking for personal and social transformation, the unlikeliest seekers may have been a small community of Roman Catholic religious: the Immaculate Heart Sisters.
Granddaughter’s memoir paints complicated portrait of would-be saint Dorothy Day
By Yonat Shimron — March 8, 2017
(RNS) In 'Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved By Beauty,' Hennessy presents Day as a matriarch with a close but complicated relationship with her only child, Tamar Hennessy, as well as her nine grandchildren.
God and politics: 4 famous voices on religion, society (COMMENTARY)
By A. James Rudin — August 21, 2015
(RNS) The views of Catholic activist Dorothy Day, Jewish thinker Moses Maimonides, Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and Rabbi Stephen Wise largely contrast with the 2016 GOP presidential candidates.
Q&A: David Brooks on character, sin and rumors about his religious journey
By Jonathan Merritt — May 1, 2015
NEW YORK (RNS) David Brooks is the rarest breed in politics -- a conservative Jew who's captivated by notions of sin, character and the appeal of liberal Catholic activist Dorothy Day.
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