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Artist Ade Bethune owed her name to a misprint at the Catholic Worker. Her name, A. de Bethune, was accidentally rendered Ade. She decided to keep it. My reflections jn @GiveUsThisDayLP
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Many yrs ago my dad appeared on stage with Gordon Liddy. He asked the audience if they were familiar with Vonnegut’s concept of a karass—a group of people collaborating unknowingly in a common plan. He said: “Gordon Liddy and I were part of a karass to end the VN war.”
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Ten years ago on May 1 2013 my mother, Carol Cummings died. I thought of Blake's line, “We are put on earth for a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love." Sometimes we achieve that by our own efforts and sometimes by what is stripped away.
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90 yrs ago on May 1 1933, at a Communist rally in Union Square, Dorothy Day and a small group of friends distributed the first issue of The Catholic Worker newspaper. As the first editorial announced:
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“For those who think that there is no hope for the future, no recognition of their plight, this little paper is addressed.” In proclaiming the radical social message of the gospel, the paper became the foundation of a movement that continues to this day.
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@OrbisBooks title on Dorothy Day and the CW featured (with discount) this month at orbisbooks.com
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The feast of St. Joseph the Worker, May 1, is also the 90th anniversary of the Catholic Worker. (Art by Fritz Eichenberg). My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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In the May issue of @GUTD my “Blessed Among Us” reflections include St Damien of Molokai, civil rights hero Unita Zelma Blackwell, CW co-founder Peter Maurin, historian Cyprian Davis, musician Mary Lou Williams, and more!
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Ilia DELIO leading a program on Teilhard to Chardin at @mariandale_ny. Live and streaming to 11 retreat houses around the country! @OrbisBooks
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Thanks to the Nautilus Awards! Two of my books tied for the same award (a first for me). Hope Sister Wendy and Dorothy are sharing a cup of tea.
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I may not be in Rome when her canonization occurs. But I will be able to say I was on the inaugural voyage of the Dorothy Day Staten Island ferry.
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On my way for the maiden voyage of the new Staten Island ferry, the #DorothyDay. For anyone wondering about the connection: SI is where Dorothy lived with the man she loved, where her daughter was born, where she found herself beginning to pray and decided to become a Catholic.
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Later it was the site of a Catholic Worker farm. Later still she kept a small house in the Spanish Camp where she liked to escape for rest and reflection.
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And it is there in Resurrection Cemetery that she was buried after her death on Nov 29 1980. Staten Island held deep meaning for her, site of her first beginning and last end and many times in between.
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Five years since the death of my friend and author #JamesCone, “father” of Black Liberation. My reflections in @GiveUsThisDayLP
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A wonderful account of the editor who published Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr, Howard Thurman, and so many modern classics. Thanks to @sprothero for a fascinating story. And may this inspire a new genre of bios of the great religion editors! I would read them all.
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