Today, Hispanics are also the largest ethnic group within U.S. Catholicism; in the first decades of the new century, they will make up the majority of U.S. Catholics
The reissue of Day's 1948 book is full of high-grade ore and some unforgettable passages that demonstrate not only Day's gripping reportage but her luminous humanity and spirit.
Jerusalem asks more questions than it answers. Its literalness, the flesh of its existence in history, its churches with their layers of history is fascinating, and embarrassing.
… Carmen Alava is Commonweal 's first person of … Ivan, had been shot while driving his cab. Carmen doesn't recall how the two of them made … has its rewards. At first they lived with Carmen and her family in cramped quarters in …
The comforts of feasting—instant light, warmth, travel, food—have become so common that we talk about being "less materialistic" at Christmas. But God loves feasting
“For me, Dorothy Day was the most engaging and engaged person I have ever met. Even now, seventeen years after her death in 1980, I think of her almost daily, with deep affection.
