In perhaps the most famous of his Easy Essays, "Blowing the Dynamite," Catholic Worker co-founder Peter Maurin urged Catholics to recover the radical import of our faith and unleash it upon the world ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cuyahoga Falls, Munroe Falls, Silver Lake, and Stow will join forces for a donation drive benefiting the Peter Maurin Center.

When I met Dorothy Day after arriving in New York City in 1975, I was 19 years old and she was 78 and the only thing that impressed her about me was that I had read Bread and Wine, a novel by Ignazio ...

Full-time volunteer Jim Reagan prepares bread that will be served along with soup to people in need at the Catholic Worker's St. Joseph House in New York last year. (CNS photo) (Editor's note: Today ...

Houses of hospitality on the land”—this is how Dorothy Day described the Catholic Worker farms that began to spring up in the 1930’s. In May, I had occasion to visit one of them and experience a ...

From: Easy Essays (Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock, 2010). From: Commonweal, Nov. 4, 1949. The spiritual works of mercy are: to admonish the sinner, to instruct the ignorant, to counsel the doubtful, to ...

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In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local. Illustration by Sarah Fuller.(sarahfullerart.com) Simone Weil House is a century-old arts-and-crafts ...

MALOY, Iowa — Peter Maurin’s vision for the Catholic Worker Movement — which he founded in 1933 with Dorothy Day — included farms that he called agronomic universities. Those early efforts were mainly ...