Take Your Pick/1
1. Rail against capitalism as you will, but recognize that since we are stuck with it, the test now is to make it work for the largest number of people. –William Schulz, executive director of…
Tag: Dorothy Day
An Appreciation of Roy Bourgeois
This was written in 2005 and I am sharing it here for friends who may be headed this weekend to Fort Benning. For some of us, the story of Father Roy Bourgeois is familiar. We…
I Was Dreaming about Your Future
for Megan Heeney I was dreaming about your future: Later twenties, Manhattan, Union Theological Seminary, “What’s a nice Catholic senorita like you doing in a place like this?” It’s back to the books, But with…
The Prophetic Voice (Accompaniment)
A Reflection on Rosalie G. Riegle, Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her Convert to Catholicism, unapologetic pacifist, denizen of the Lower East Side, comforter of the poor, journalist by trade, and nay-sayer to secular…
The Only Statement That Counts
for Yoshifugi In 1974 at an amazing conference was held at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York. Christians and Jews gathered to confront the question, “Auschwitz: Beginning of a New Era?” Catholic theologians…