ByRosalie Riegle
Rosalie Riegle reviews a new collection of Dorothy Day’s spiritual writings, and finally finds the deep connections between Day and her spiritual hero, St. Thérèse of Lisieux.
ByRosalie Riegle
People mostly know Sr. Anne Montgomery. RSCJ, as an educator and peace activist who worked with poor youth in New York City and was among the eight individuals who participated in the very first Plowshares action. But she was less well known for her poetry, until now. This new volume of her poetry should help to change that, as Rosalie Riegle writes in her review.
ByRosalie Riegle
Dorothy Day: Radical Devotion is a lively, colorful introduction to the life of Dorothy Day, the 20th century Catholic social reformer and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement.
ByRosalie Riegle
In a new collection of his writings, Philip Berrigan continues to be a mentor and a master of nonviolent civil disobedience. The collection, A Ministry of Risk, should move us all to Christian action, our reviewer writes.
ByBrian Terrell
Forty-five years after the publication of Michael Garvey’s “Confessions of a Catholic Worker,” Larry Chapp has written his own “Confession.” But his attempt to link the theology of Joseph Ratzinger and Hans Urs von Balthasar to the vision of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin is far off the mark, writes Brian Terrell.
ByRosalie Riegle
Why has the Catholic Worker flourished even after the passing of its founders? These communities have prospered, according to Dan McKanan, because Day and Maurin provided them with a blueprint that emphasized creativity more than rigid adherence to a single model.
ByRosalie Riegle
Don’t dive into this book as one does a novel. Read it slowly, musing on an essay for a week, with a pencil in hand. For Day challenges us to make the connections between a spirituality of love for God and a love for all.
ByRosalie Riegle
In “Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty,” Kate Hennessy paints an intimate portrait of her famous grandmother in the context of her family.
