- Just Phone Rates in Jail by Matt Vogel - Article explores the extremely high phone rates most families have to pay to speak to incarcerated loved ones and the negative effect this has on rehabilitation. Commends New York for giving up its kickback from the phone company it gave a prison monopoly to.
- Anger Grows in City Streets by Chris Zimmerman - Describes angry neighborhood reaction to police shooting of Timur Pearson. Describes New Black Panther Party incitement to "put some fear into the system." [Daniel's Note - The CW does NOT endorse the BPP's methods or most of its platform.]
- Iraqis Face New Sorrow by Cathy Breen - Letters from Jordan about Iraqi Refuges and the Iraqi government's decision to issue new passports and force refugees to return to Baghdad to get them. Letters describe deteriorating conditions for refugees in Jordan and faults US and Britain for unwillingness to take refugees their war created.
- Spring Appeal by Editors - The Catholic Worker needs your help! Please send your NON-tax-deductible contribution to the address listed under "subscriptions." Any amount will help them.
- Peter Maurin Farm by Else M. Dowdy - A reflection on the last years of Theodore Rooselvet Ridlon, long time CW resident.
- Five Years Too Long! by Matthew W. Daloisio - Describes continuing protests against the Guantanamo Bay prison run by the United States. Describes efforts to bring the names of detainees into federal courts. Mentions group Witness Against Torture. To bring a speaker to your community or for more information on the Campaign to Shut Down Guantanamo, please contact Matthew W. Daloisio, 55 E. 3rd Street, NY, NY, 10003, (201) 264-4424.
- Theodore Rooselvet Ridlon, Our "Slim" by Tom Cornell - A tribute to the life of long time Catholic Worker and walker. His origins were shrouded in mystery, but he was kind to all.
- Death Penalty Review Raise Questions by Alice and Staughton Lynd and Bill Griffin - Reaction and dialog to book review of Death of Innocents in the December 2006 Catholic Worker.
- Abbe Pierre, R.I.P. by Bill Griffin - Obituary of French Resistance member and later homeless activist Fr. Henri Groues. Abbe Pierre was the founder of the Emmaus Community.
- Sr. Ruth Heaney, OSB by Rosalie Reigle - Obituary of a Catholic Worker pioneer and prisoner advocate who kept active through her 80s. She received several awards in her lifetime, including the Elaine Aber Humanitarian Award from the Missouri Association for Social Welfare and the papal award Pro Ecclesia et Pontiface. She was married with six children before becoming a nun.
- More on Ruth Heaney by Cyril Echele - Recollection of Sr. Ruth Heaney by a friend of many years.
- Memories of Bishop Proano by Joseph E. Mulligan, SJ - Reflections on the prophetic life of Ecuadorian bishop Leonidas Proano, the "bishop of the Indians" with special attention to his work in the 1970s and persecution by Ecuadorian authorities.
- Book Review - The Call to Discernment in Troubled Times: New Perspectives on the Transformative Wisdom of Ignatius of Loyola by Dean Brackley, SJ , Crossroads Publishing, New York, 2004 Reviewed by Gail M. Presbey. - Mostly favorable review of a new look at St. Ignatius' Spiritual Exercises. Notes author provides three requirements to keep in touch with reality - 1) Let the reality of suffering reach us; 2) undergo personal transformation; and 3) seek wisdom in community.
- Book Review - To Wisdom Through Failure: A Journey of Compassion, Resistance and Hope. by Larry Rosebaugh, OMI. EPICA, Washington, DC, 2006 Reviewed by Karl Meyer - Favorable review of missionary and peace activist Fr. Larry Rosebaugh. Stories of work in Guatemala, Mexico, El Salvador and while imprisoned.
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As far as I know, the text and woodcut graphics of the Catholic Worker are not available on-line. If you would like the full text of an article that I mention here, I have three suggestions:
1) Try to borrow the article through Interlibrary Loan.
2) Contact the archivist for the CW at Marquette University:
Phil Runkel
Archivist
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Raynor Memorial Libraries
Marquette University
1355 W. Wisconsin Ave, PO Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
414-288-5903
http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/day.html
3) Try contacting the Catholic Worker directly. They MAY be willing to send you the article, though I don't know if they have morgue files. It seems likely they do, since they often reprint Dorothy Day articles. Contact information for Catholic Worker appears in the “subscribe” section below.
Phil Runkel
Archivist
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Raynor Memorial Libraries
Marquette University
1355 W. Wisconsin Ave, PO Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
414-288-5903
http://www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/day.html
3) Try contacting the Catholic Worker directly. They MAY be willing to send you the article, though I don't know if they have morgue files. It seems likely they do, since they often reprint Dorothy Day articles. Contact information for Catholic Worker appears in the “subscribe” section below.
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