Birth: April 28, 1928 Death: March 2, 1985
Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin..
Listening is a rare happening among human beings. You cannot listen to the word another is speaking if you are preoccupied with your appearance, or w….
The characteristic place to find Christians is among their enemies. The first place to look for Christ is in Hell..
The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America..
Being holy . . . does not mean being perfect but being whole; it does not mean being exceptionally religious or being religious at all; it means bein….
The biblical lifestyle is always a witness of resistance to the status quo in politics, economics, and all society. It is a witness of resurrection f….
Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it's not a benign material..
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things o….
The practice of the Christian life consists of the discernment of (the seeing and hearing), and the reliance upon (the reckless and uncalculating dep….
Dorothy Day, of blessed memory, did not like to be called (as she often was, for good reason) a saint, because it usually meant that she was not bein….