Brian Terrell

Brian Terrell is a longtime activist and lives on a Catholic Worker farm in Maloy, Iowa.

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Dorothy Day is depicted in a stained-glass window at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in the Staten Island borough of New York. Day's cause for canonization is advancing from the Archdiocese of New York to the Vatican. (CNS/Gregory A. Shemitz)

As Dorothy Day's sainthood cause advances, this Catholic Worker won't be celebrating

Some zealous champions of Dorothy Day's canonization cause have, deliberately or not, occasioned the very dismissal she feared. Some who would have argued with and even condemned Day when she was alive now would neutralize her with praise.

Defunct buildings at the Nevada National Security Site (Flickr/Travel Nevada)

What would Jesus wear to celebrate Mass at the end of the world?

Commentary: In October four years ago, hundreds of Catholic Workers and fellow travelers converged on Nevada from points around the globe. "What was the spectacle that drew you into the wilderness?" Jesus once asked.

True lesson of Dorothy Day's 'Coffee Cup Mass'

Dorothy Day's anarchism is the antidote to disappointing political system

Dorothy Day: ‘We are not going into the subject of birth control at all as a matter of fact’

Dorothy Day's 'filthy, rotten system' likely wasn't hers at all

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