Tom Cornell is a long-time Catholic Worker who worked with Dorothy Day. He is a deacon in the Archdiocese of New York. Joe Zarrella, among the first Catholic Workers, preferred her old publisher’s publicity photo from the Thirties, Dorothy in wavy shoulder-length hair. I prefer the one from the mid-Sixties, before she lost her weight,… continue reading

It is most surely an exercise of faith for us to see Christ in each other. But it is through such exercise that we grow and the joy of our vocation assures us we are on the right path. On Easter Day, on awakening late after the long midnight services in our parish church, I… continue reading

by Martha Hennessy It is a privilege for my family to be asked to participate in the effort to forward the cause for canonization of Dorothy Day. I hope that our contributions can be understood, in the words of Peter Maurin as part of “the clarification of thought” and that our sentiments will not disqualify… continue reading

Reprinted on the sixtieth anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb. Mr. Truman was jubilant. President Truman. True man; what a strange name, come to think of it. We refer to Jesus Christ as true God and true Man. Truman is a true man of his time in that he was jubilant. He was… continue reading

Robert Ellsberg spoke at a gathering of individuals interested in the canonization of Dorothy Day on June 7, 2005, held under the auspices of the Cardinal Archbishop of New York, Cardinal Egan. Since Dorothy Day was from New York, it fell under the responsibility of the Ordinary of her diocese to pursue the canonization process…. continue reading

Dorothy Day wrote these reflections on the appearance of Our Lady of Guadalupe to Juan Diego after a pilgrimage to the Basilica in Mexico City. It was in 1531 that Our Lady appeared to the Indian Juan Diego (his Spanish name given him at his baptism.) There were not many Catholics then among the Indians,… continue reading