God’s Harsh and Dreadful Love

by George Weigel

Catholicism may be entering a new “Humanae Vitae moment.” Continue Reading »

14 Apr 2021

Eros and Dorothy Day

by Dan Hitchens

Christians, it has been said, “worry about what people are doing in bed much more than making sure everybody has a bed to begin with.” That pithy statement of conventional wisdom can be usefully tested against the life and writings of Dorothy Day. Through the Catholic Worker houses she founded, . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2017

Licensing the Kingdom

by Nora Calhoun

St. Joseph’s House of Hospitality on the Lower East Side of Manhattan was one of the original communities f­ounded during the Depression by Dorothy Day and Peter ­Maurin. When I lived there a few years ago I observed up-close the often tense, sometimes funny interactions between the Catholic . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Apr 2015

Revolutionary of the Heart

by Geoffrey B. Gneuhs

Since John Cardinal O’Connor’s announcement at his Sunday Mass on November 9, 1997 at St. Patrick’s Cathedral that he was going to discuss Dorothy Day (1897-1980) as a candidate for canonization, there has been a great deal of comment on the subject in both the religious and secular media. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 May 1998