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THE LAST WORD Poor for the right reasons DOROTHY DAY The spiritual works of mercy are: to admonish the sinner, to instruct the ignorant, to counsel the doubtful, to comfort the sorrowful, to bear...

Faith & economics: comments from sixty years (November 1984)

Comments from sixty years 'NORMALCY' & ITS DISCONTENTS T !O SOME PEOPLE man is a machine, and man is no more than a branch of physics. To other people man is an animal --mere!y-and economics,...

THE HOUSE ON MOTT STREET (November 1973)

THE HOUSE ON MOTT STREET DOROTHY DAY A pot of soup is sufficient to make a beginning . . , . May 6, 1938 od seems to wish us to remain poor and...

A REMINISCENCE AT 75 (August 1973)

A REMINISCENCE AT 75 DOROTHY DAY Dorothy Day, co-/ounder o/ the Catholic Worker movement, wrote her first article for Commonweal in September o~ 1929. To mark her 75th birthday, the editors...

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (November 1969)

MARY DALY ON THE CHURCH one has then moved out of the "old en- Questions Q In this period of change and vironment" of Catholic...

'A.J.': (March 1967)

Death o f a peacemaker ,1A. J.' ...

Southern Pilgrimage (March 1961)

TIME OF TRIAL Southern Pilgrimage by DOROTHY DAY COMING UP from New Orleans to Baton Rouge -home of the Legislature which has five times fired the school board and appointed a new one, none of...

In Memory of Ed Willock (February 1961)

becomes almost impossible. Almost impossible. This is a further challenge, a further necessity, for dialogue: that in spite of our different histories, our different hopes and fears, we still must...

III The Challenge of the Specific (October 1959)

ill-The Challenge of the Specific Criticism of the United Nations by ,~ ROBERT E. LUCEY T EN years after the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations, the fundamental facts of...

Pilgrimage to Mexico (December 1958)

THE SHRINE AT GUADALUPE Pilgrimage to Mexico by, DOROTHY DAY I SPENT six months in Mexico back in 1929, most of the time in Mexico City and Xochimilco. The churches had just been reopened and...

We Plead Guilty (December 1957)

atfirmation of the law of the spirit. Gandhi described it as the "power of truth" and the "power of love." It is the power of truth because it is the recognition of the spiritual ground of all...

Priest of the Immediate (December 1956)

ABBE PIERRE Priest of the Immediate DOROTHY DAY WE NOW have the words of Abbe Pierre in print, but he himself did not write a book. The Rag Pickers of Emmaus, which Kenedy published early last year,...

The Story of Steve Hergenhan (January 1952)

The Story of Steve Hergenhan By DOROTHY DAY S TEVE HERGENHAN came ~0 The Catholic Worker from Union Sqtmre. He was a German carpenter, a skilled workman who after forty years of frugal living...

Traveling by Bus (March 1950)

Traveling by Bus You can see the country, meet the people ... and get where you're going at half the...

The Scandal of the Works of Mercy (October 1949)

The Scandal of the 'Works of Mercy To reach the man in the street you must go, to the street, where Christianity itself may be a sign of...

PETER AND WOMEN (December 1946)

188 Peter and Women Fragment from an unpublished manuscript Dorothy Day THERE HAS BEEN a faithful friend of Peter whom I would like to write about, Lillian Weiss, who has been a...

MORE BOOKS OF THE WEEK George M Cohan-O River, Remember 1-Our Lady of the Birds (January 1944)

More Books of the Week George M. Cohan. Ward Morehouse. Lippincott. $3.00. LAST WEEK I noticed a girl at a service men's dance, and something about her face and manner prompted me to ask if she had...

"TOBACCO ROAD" (November 1943)

"Tobacco Road" DOROTHY DAY THE STORY begins with my speaking at downtown Fordham to the Sodality of Our Lady, one noon hour some years ago. The meeting had a note in the Times perhaps, under...

ABOUT MARY (November 1943)

About Mary DOROTHY DAY THIS morning after Communion I thought of writing about Mary, and since the thought came to me at that time, I took it as an order. I always say to the Blessed Mother after...

IT WAS A GOOD DINNER (August 1940)

It Was a Good Dinner Summer in the city is hard, par- ticularly in poor...

KING, RAMSAY AND CONNOR (April 1940)

WE DROVE over Golden Gate_ Bridge through the warm spring sunshine, and for half an hour through the mountains over a four lane highway. Dick Bourret of the Young Christian Workers was driving,...

TALE OF TWO CAPITALS (July 1939)

Tale of Two Cap i ta ls 1939 sees no end to human misery in the United States. Here are reports from Washington and Harrisburg. By Dorothy Day Washington I T IS a hot summer afternoon in...

The House on Mott Street (May 1938)

May 6, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 37 The idea of the society is explained in the first Report recently issued : "Its inspiration, obviously, was partly found in the London Aquinas Society and similar...

HOUSES OF HOSPITALITY (April 1938)

684 THE COMMONWEAL April 15, 1938 never have had the courage to start. (Oh, we of little faith!) Most of them hesitated along for several years before starting the endless task of feeding those who...

Saint John of the Cross (July 1933)

July 14, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 287 SAINT JOHN OF THE CROSS Saint Teresa,...

For the Truly Poor (March 1933)

FOR THE TRULY POOR By DOROTHY DAY MARIA has come in from the country where she has been living for the past years, and we are going out to look for an apartment for her. It is for herself, her...

Books (February 1933)

THE COMMONWEAL February 8, 1933 BOOKS Intuitive Criticism Sketches in Criticism, by Van Wyck Brooks. New York: E. P. Button and Company. $3.50. O CAN endure to Tead old Teviews?" asked...

Real Revolutionists (January 1933)

January n, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 293 REAL REVOLUTIONISTS By DOROTHY DAY ON THE same day that the unemployed hunger marchers were being ushered out of the city of Washington by the entire...

Books (December 1932)

246 THE COMMONWEAL December 28, 1932 BOOKS Rhode Island Hero Roger Williams, New England Firebrand, by James Ernst. New York: The Macmillan Company. $4.00. WHILE theocracy and oligarchy...

East Twelfth Street (November 1932)

128 THE COMMONWEAL November 30, 1932 EAST TWELFTH STREET By DOROTHY DAY WHEN we came back to New York from our visit to Florida, Teresa and I, we had an opportunity to rent our little...

Notes from Florida (June 1932)

212 THE C O M M O N W E A L June 22, 1932 had not intended to go to sleep at all. I heard several peals of laughter, but whether my big hand-trunk was the cause of all the merriment I do not...

Now We Are Home Again (August 1931)

382 THE COMMONWEAL August 19, 1931 neither obliged, by lack of ability, to confine themselves to the simplest of the plainsong melodies, nor wont, because of lack of true taste, to devote all their...

Bed (May 1931)

I00 THE COMMONWEAL May 27, 1931 When he made his library public, Pamphilus created a need for more books. The multiplication of volumes was no easy task. Today procuring new books is relatively...

Places and Persons (July 1930)

296 THE COMMONWEAL July 16, 1930 Places and Persons SPRING FESTIVAL IN MEXICO By DOROTHY DAY LAST Friday was the Friday of Sorrows, the day of the sorrows of the Blessed Virgin, and,...

A Letter from Mexico City (April 1930)

A LETTER FROM MEXICO CITY By DOROTHY DAY OUTSIDE the sun is pouring down on the roofs so that our several fat kittens seek the shade of the calla-lilies, heliotrope and other potted plants. I sit...

Guadalupe (February 1930)

GUADALUPE By DOROTHY DAY "TODAY," I announced to four-year-old Teresa, "we will go out to see Our Lady of Guadalupe." "A pil'mage?" Teresa asked hopefully. Pilgrimages to her whether in New York,...

The Brother and the Rooster (September 1929)

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