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Book Review: The Catholic Worker After Dorothy
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Book Review: The Catholic Worker After Dorothy

Rosalie RiegleByRosalie Riegle April 25, 2023April 25, 2023

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.

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Book Review: “On Pilgrimage: The Sixties”
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Book Review: “On Pilgrimage: The Sixties”

Rosalie RiegleByRosalie Riegle April 7, 2023April 7, 2023

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.

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Book Review: “Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved by Beauty”
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Book Review: “Dorothy Day: The World Will be Saved by Beauty”

Rosalie RiegleByRosalie Riegle April 5, 2023April 5, 2023

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.

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Let us create a society in which it is easier for people to be good.

attributed to peter maurin

“God meant things to be much easier than we have made them.”

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