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September 2020

September 07, 2020

A Beautiful Memoir of Waging Peace

Is a history of the Catholic Worker movement even possible, given the innately anarchic nature...

November 2019

November 21, 2019

When Dorothy Day Met Hannah Arendt

At the May 21, 1972 commencement exercises at the University of Notre Dame, Dorothy Day...

October 2019

October 10, 2019

“There is no such thing as just war.”

In less than two weeks, a group of seven Catholic peace activists will be put...

September 2019

September 24, 2019

Going Out to the Peripheries! (About Our Relaunch)

Here’s how my Solidarity Hall colleague, Mark Gordon, launched this column, named for Dorothy Day,...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

Balancing the Works of Mercy and the Works of Justice

We are mostly comfortable middle class people exercising a sort of Catholic noblesse oblige, often with...

May 07, 2018

Ten Strong Things

Wisdom from the Babylonian Talmud (Baba Bathra 10a). Ten strong things have been created in...

October 2017

October 13, 2017

Babylon’s Falling: Recovering an Exilic Christian Consciousness

Babylon is indeed falling. But then, Babylon is always falling, which is to say that...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

The Life of “An Apostle of Charity”

Raymond Sickinger, a professor of history at Providence College, has written an impressive new biography...

April 2017

April 21, 2017

Review of ‘The Reckless Way of Love’

If you have any degree of devotion to, affection for, or interest in Dorothy Day,...

November 2016

November 21, 2016

Lights Coming Back on in Gary

I knew my involvement in civic matters in northwest Indiana would eventually take me to...

May 2016

May 27, 2016

Junger’s Hunger, And Ours

A couple of years ago, I took some members of a large Rwandan refugee family to a...

May 18, 2016

Book Review: “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants for His People”

I write today for the purpose of recommending “Called to Community: The Life Jesus Wants...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Boxed In

A few years ago, my wife and I were assigned a case through our local...

March 25, 2016

Good Friday Through a Mother’s Eyes

Morning. 6:00 am You never really slept last night, and now the ache is settling...

March 23, 2016

The Passion of the Poor

"Ah, the pain, the anguish, the sin and despair, the remorse, at not living as...

March 04, 2016

Not Just Another Option

By Josh Brumfield I confess I like the Benedict Option. I am attracted to the...

February 2016

February 02, 2016

The Mystery of the Poor

“Christ is at once rich and poor: as God, rich; as a human person, poor....

January 2016

January 26, 2016

Hospitality, Smallness and the Butterfly Effect

The prospect of living with - as distinct from near or among - the poor...

January 22, 2016

Revisiting ‘Catholic Citizenship and the Dorothy Option’

Welcome to the first post on Solidarity Hall's new group blog, The Dorothy Option. Our title is...