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The Real Presence(s) of Christ in the Life and Thought of Dorothy Day, Key to Her Canonization 23 Aug 2013 | 03:06 pm
Tom Loome and his wife, Karen, are founding members of the Stillwater Catholic Worker in Minnesota. For many years, Tom had the largest and best scholarly Catholic bookstore in the United States. Doro...
An American Family’s Journey: Experience of the Church in El Salvador in 1977 27 Jul 2013 | 04:48 pm
We arrived in San Salvador on January 27th. The house we were to rent for $50.00 a month was located in a marginated area near the river and the dump. It had running water and electricity and was to b...
The Pilgrimage Continues in Houston in 1981 17 Jul 2013 | 11:20 pm
Dorothy Day has died. However, her spirit is alive and well; its presence was recently felt in Houston. The Houston Catholic Worker has opened its doors. Her work goes on, maybe not in the perfect spi...
Miracle After Prayers to Dorothy Inspires New Convert: My Long, Circuitous Journey into Catholicism 5 Jul 2013 | 11:01 pm
At Casa Juan Diego we all rejoiced when we learned that Sarah Maple’s aggressive brain cancer had been cured through prayers to Dorothy Day. This past Easter, Sarah came into the Catholic Church. When...
Pope Wants a Church of the Poor and For the Poor, But a Well-known Catholic Writer Rejects Saint Francis of Assisi 5 Jul 2013 | 10:43 pm
The very first thing our new Pope did was to choose the name of Francis for St. Francis of Assisi. No Pope has ever been named Francis before. If Pope Francis had not done anything else, just claiming...
Hospitality and Honeybees: Worker Bees Inspire Catholic Worker 4 Jul 2013 | 06:57 am
Casa Juan Diego’s hospitality has been stretched to new limits in recent months as we welcomed a colony of honeybees to make themselves at home in our garden. The ecological importance of bees is undi...
His Daughter Died of Sadness. Separated From Her Father By Economics As She Lay Dying 4 Jul 2013 | 06:47 am
Andy and Blossom Wright were Catholic Workers in Houston for eight years. They now live in Wisconsin and recently visited with their four children. We asked Andy’s help in getting Daniel to the bus st...
Undocumented Boost Texas Economy 28 Jun 2013 | 12:14 am
Houston’s economy is booming. Its prosperity and economic success can be attributed to the great labor pool provided by our Latin American brothers who, for the most part, are undocumented. They can b...
Dorothy Day, A Saint for Our Time: A Conference in Florida 20 Jun 2013 | 02:24 am
St. Thomas University in Miami Florida plans to hold a conference on March 7 -8. 2014 entitled ” Dorothy Day: A Saint For Our Time.” The conference hopes to explore all aspects of her life which hav...
New Section – How It All Began 19 Jun 2013 | 02:39 am
We debated about calling the new/old section in the Archives, “What Were You Thinking?” or “The Early Years” or “Our Kids Think This Is Normal?” or “Giving It All Away” or “The Fire Years,” or “Yout...
