Membership in The Guild for Dorothy Day is a way to assist in the canonization of Dorothy Day. Lourdes Ferrer, Coordinator of the Guild, writes that “Because of our modest staff, we depend on our members not only for financial support, but also for your assistance in distributing Guild brochures, starting prayer circles and becoming… continue reading
Promoting the Canonization of Dorothy Day: Send Information On Favors Received Through Her Intercession
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Death by Earthquake: Collateral Damages of Neoliberalism: Why Did the Earthquake Do So Much Damage in Haiti?
April 1, 2010 by
Every Wednesday evening at Casa Juan Diego we celebrate Mass in honor of our guests’ arrival in the United States. It is our tradition to ask one of the recently arrived immigrants to tell the story of his journey. Often these are harrowing stories, and usually it is very difficult for the storytellers to put… continue reading
A Former Catholic Worker, Now a Teacher, Shares with Students How the Infancy Narratives Relate to Immigrants’ Stories
February 1, 2010 by
Hey, Mark and Louise! Just wanted to check in and once again thank you for everything you and all of the Catholic Workers do there at Casa Juan Diego. I cherish the time I spent serving there, and in new ways I am constantly coming to find how what I learned there is being lived… continue reading
Aliens and the Bible: Evangelical Protestant Approaches to the Undocumented
February 1, 2010 by
The author is a Catholic Worker at Casa Juan Diego, on sabbatical leave from Lamar University in Beaumont, TX Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible (2008) by M. Daniel Carroll R. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Academic, 174 pp., $16.99 (paper) The Immigration Crisis: Immigrants, Aliens, and the Bible (2009) by James… continue reading
The Encyclical Caritas in Veritate Through the Lens of Casa Juan Diego
February 1, 2010 by
Josh is a Catholic Worker at Casa Juan Diego, recently graduated from North Park University in Chicago. Caritas in Veritate is an invitation to think differently. It is, above all, a challenge to think like a Christian in matters beyond one’s ‘personal religious experience’ or ‘private life.’ The Church has often-untapped resources, beyond that which… continue reading
Prayers and Aid for Haiti After the Earthquake
February 1, 2010 by
As we go to press, we hear many reports of the devastation from the earthquake in Haiti. Our prayers and thoughts are with the Haitian people as they try to recover. The Vatican has asked Catholic Relief Services, the official overseas aid and development agency of the United States Catholic Bishops, to coordinate Catholic efforts in… continue reading
The Blessings of Saint Juan Diego at Casa Juan Diego
February 1, 2010 by
Jennifer is a Catholic Worker at Casa Juan Diego, a recent graduate from the University of St. Thomas in Houston. On December 9 th , the feast day of Saint Juan Diego, the staff of Casa Juan Diego was given numerous opportunities to see Christ in the poor and to grow in the virtues of… continue reading
Immigration Reform Can Wait No Longer
December 1, 2009 by
In September of 2009, Most Rev. Jose H. Gomez, Archbishop of San Antonio, Texas led a delegation of Hispanic Bishops to speak to the Congress in Washington, D.C. about the urgency of immigration reform. This article was published in the San Antonio Archdiocesan paper, Today’s Catholic. The current Congress, certainly has its hands full trying to… continue reading
Cardinal Newman on the Incarnation
December 1, 2009 by
His condescension in coming down from heaven, in leaving His Father’s glory and taking flesh, is so far beyond power of words or thought, that one might consider at first sight that it mattered little whether He came as a prince or a beggar. And yet after all, it is much more wonderful that He came… continue reading
The Great Mystery of the Incarnation of Jesus Christ
December 1, 2009 by
“The great mystery of the Incarnation,” Dorothy Day said as she spoke about the inspiration for the daily life of those in the Catholic Worker movement, “which meant that God became man that man might become God, was a joy that made us want to kiss the earth in worship, because His feet once trod… continue reading
