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Hi All,

I have completed the Digest for the December 2007 issue of the Catholic Worker and you can find it and all of the other Digests over at our new Wordpress powered blog at http://catholicworkerdigest.wordpress.com/.

This new site gives me some extra statistics and features that I think we may all find helpful. Please change your bookmarks and join me. And the January 2007 issue will probably come soon.

Has anyone out there got Dec 2007?

UPDATE 1/16/2008 - December 2007 arrived today.
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Hi All,

In case you've been wondering why a new digest hasn't come out this month, it's because I've yet to receive my December 2007 issue of the Catholic Worker. I haven't seen it in my church either, which for whatever reason gets the Worker about a week before I get mine at home.

I know the Worker has been having problems getting stuff mailed to locations outside the lower 48. So if you read this blog, and you've received a copy would you either leave me a comment or send me an e-mail letting me know what city you live in and when you got your copy?

Even better, if you'd take one of the previous digest entries as a model, I'd really appreciate it if you would put together a "guest digest" and e-mail it to me at dnlcornwall "AT" alaska.net. I'll give you credit when the entry is posted.

I will probably pull this entry if my copy of CW comes in before someone sends me a guest digest.

Thanks and I hope you have a blessed 2008 with an outpouring of justice. - Daniel

October/November 2007

The October/November 2007 issue of the Catholic Worker featured the following articles:

• Divinity Here and Now by Dorothy Day - Reprint of 1949 article reflecting on how motherhood brings a person out of themselves and provides faith life will continue. Also reflects on every Christian's call to sainthood.
  
  
• Recommendation & Request by Jim Forest and Robert Ellsberg - Jim Forest recommends the DVD version of the Dorothy Day biographical play Fool for Christ. Robert Ellsberg is beginning to collect and edit the letters of Dorothy Day. If you have some letters or know who does, please contact Robert Ellsberg at at Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY 10545.



• In Human Terms by Bill Griffin - Commends the work of Ha'aretz columnist Amira Hass for humanizing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
  
  
• CIW & Prison Phone Updates by Matt Vogel - These two short articles celebrate victories for justice. The Coalition of Immokale Workers, a Florida-based agricultural union convinced McDonald's to pay growers an extra penny a pound for tomatoes. This agreement also raises workers wages and improves working conditions. In a separate update, the State of New York has agree to stop profiting from inmate phone cards. Work to get other states to follow suit is being undertaken by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
  
  
• Torture on Trial in Arizona by Bill Quigley - Account of the ongoing trial of Fransican Fr. Louis Vitale and Jesuit Fr. Stephen Kelly for attempting to deliver a protest letter to the Fr. Huachuca office of Major General Barbara Fast. Article touches on incidents of US torture and the suicide of Abu Gharib interrogator Army Specialist Alyssa R. Peterson. According to the article, the outcome of the trial will not affect November 2007 protests planned for Ft. Huachuca. For information about the trial or the November protest, contact Jack or Felice Cohen-Joppa at 520-323-8697. Daniel's Note: according to the group Pace e Bene, the two priests have been given a five month prison sentence.
  
  
• Remember, Respond, Resist by Tanya Theriault - Accounts of remembrance and resistance relating to the American atomic bombings of WWII and our current occupation of Iraq.
  
  
• Wrenched from My Heart by John Pitts Corry - A reflection on our obligations to the poor and how we in the West are all rich because we have shones.
  
  
• Cardinal Lustiger, 1926-2007 by Bill Griffin - Obituary for Jewish convert and conservative French Catholic Bishop. Description of the complexity of his life and work and of his role in reconciling Catholics and Jews.
  
  
• Beth Rogers, 1919-2007 by Felton Davis - Obituary of a long-time Catholic Worker and senior circulation manager. Has a number of reflections from the 1940s/1950s.
  
  
• Grace Paley by Dan Mauk - Brief death notice and tribute to Grace by someone saved from a police beating by her vigilence.
  
  
• Blessed Franz! by Jane Sammon - A celebration of the beatification of Franz Jagerstatter, German draft resister who rejected idolatory of the State. Suggests Jagerstatter as a patron for today's objectors.
  
  
• Book Review: Into the Silent Land: A Guide to the Christian Practice of Contemplation. By Martin Laird, OSA. Oxford University Press New York 2006. Reviewed by Robert Trabold. - Favorable review of a guide to contemplative prayer.
  
  

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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.

To Subscribe:

Even you if you don't like what you see here, I encourage you to try a subscription to the Catholic Worker. They will give you a subscription for $0.25/year (If you want to cover the actual costs of a subscription, send them $10). You can hardly do better than a quarter a year!

Send your subscription requests to:

Catholic Worker
36 East 1^st St.
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 212-777-9617 or 212-677-8627.

Even if you think you hate the Catholic Worker movement and all it stands for, subscribe anyway. See what the other side is doing. Also get it for the obituaries. Nowhere else will you find people memorializing the marginalized the way the Catholic Worker celebrates the lives that come through their houses of hospitality. Everyone can learn something about how to see every person's dignity by perusing these obituaries.

Nov/Dec 2007 NYC Friday Meetings

This entry is being written on November 3, 2007 and I just received my Aug/Sept 2007 issue of the Catholic Worker a few days ago. Look for a full digest in the next week or so. Because I know I have several readers in the New York City area, I wanted to point out the CW Friday Night Meetings while that information is still useful.

All meetings begin at 7:45pm:

Nov 9 - Anna Brown: Etty Hillesum--The Language of the Incandescent Heart
Nov 16 - Marie Ponsot and Lawrence Joseph: Poetry against nonviolence
Nov 23 - No Meeting. Happy Thanksgiving!
Nov 30 - Alice Hendrickson: A Year in Southeast Turkey Among the Kurds*
Dec 7 - Anthony Giacchino's film - The Camden 28
Dec 14 - A Conversation with the NYC New Sanctuary Movement.*
Dec 21 - Annual Christmas Party -- Please Join Us!
Dec 28 - No Meeting--Happy New Year!

Why the meetings? I'll let the Worker itself explain:

In keeping with Peter Maurin's recognition of the need for ongoing
clarification of thought, we invite you to join us for our weekly Friday night
meetings. The meetings are held either at Maryhouse--55 East Third St,
212-777-9617, or St. Joseph House, 36 East First St, 212-254-1640. As far ahead
as we can see, those we will hold at First Street will be marked with an *. Feel
welcome to call and confirm the schedule. Both houses are between First and
Second Avenues (2nd Ave. stop on the F or V train).

So, if you're within driving distance of New York, please attend if you can. If you do, would you leave a comment here or send an e-mail to dnlcornwall AT alaska.net.

August/September 2007

The August 2007 issue of the Catholic Worker featured the following articles:

• Education for Goodness Sake by Jim Reagan - Reflection on the purpose of education. Argues that employability alone should not be the purpose of education.
  
• Our Nuclear Denial Persists by Eileen Egan - Reprint of an August 1976 article about Americans' refusal to face the consequences of our nuclear weapons.
• Sentenced to Struggle by Matt Vogel - Disturbing case study of how a mentally ill person gets shuffled from being homeless to the courts to prison, back on the streets and back again. Notes that neither courts nor prisons are equipped to deal with serious mental illness. Commends the Housing First model as a humane and money saving alternative to prison.
  
• Fr. David Kirk, 1935-2007 by Orthodox Church in America - Reprint of an obituary of a Christian Orthodox priest known for his work with the poor in Harlem. Founder of Emmaus House. Other accounts of Fr. Kirk's life can be found in the New York Times, on NPR, and on the OCA website.
• Peter Lumsden, 1935-2007 by John Sullivan - Obituary of "Long time friend of the Catholic Worker." Known of his hospitality and opposition to the draft.
• Aparecida: See, Judge, Act by Florence Anderson - Brief account of the "Fifth Encounter" of the Church in Latin America and the Carribean.
  
• Book Review: Blackwater: The rise of the world's most powerful mercenary army. By Jeremy Scahill, Nationa Books, NY 2007 Reviewed by Tom Cornell. - Mostly favorable review of book critical of the use of private security firms in war zones and the lack of accountability that creates. James Schahill spoke about his book to Truthdig and to Democracy Now.
  
• Book Review: Journey of a Jihadist. By Fawaz A. Gerges. Harcourt, NY, 2007. Reviewed by Bill Griffin. - Favorable review of a book by author who was born in 1958 in Lebanon and whose experience was marked by Christians and Muslims living in peace. Book argues that the September 11, 2001 attacks were rejected by all but a small minority of Islam and that Jihadist Islam's greatest support at the current time is the United States, which is providing plausibility to the Jihadist claims that the US is engaging in a long term crusade against the Islamic world.
  

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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.

To Subscribe:

Even you if you don't like what you see here, I encourage you to try a subscription to the Catholic Worker. They will give you a subscription for $0.25/year (If you want to cover the actual costs of a subscription, send them $10). You can hardly do better than a quarter a year!

Send your subscription requests to:

Catholic Worker
36 East 1^st St.
New York, NY 10003
Telephone: 212-777-9617 or 212-677-8627.

Even if you think you hate the Catholic Worker movement and all it stands for, subscribe anyway. See what the other side is doing. Also get it for the obituaries. Nowhere else will you find people memorializing the marginalized the way the Catholic Worker celebrates the lives that come through their houses of hospitality. Everyone can learn something about how to see every person's dignity by perusing these obituaries.

Catholic Worker House - Surplus Food

This video gives a brief overview of how one Catholic Worker House is feeding the poor. If anyone knows WHERE this house is, please leave a comment.

And please give me feed back on whether you want to see CW related videos in with the digest. Speaking of which, I hope to finish Aug/Sept this weekend.

NYC Meetings - Sep to Nov 2007

This entry is being written on September 10, 2007 and I just received my Aug/Sept 2007 issue of the Catholic Worker. Look for a full digest in the next week or so. Because I know I have at least one reader in the New York City area, I wanted to point out the CW Friday Night Meetings while that information is still useful.

All meetings begin at 7:45pm:

Sep 14 - Mary Ann Grady, Emad Bornat & Tito Kayak: The Palestinian Crisis.*
Sep 21 - Chris Zimmerman: Why forgive? Breaking the Cycle of resentment
Sep 28 - Michael True: Peacemaking & Interreligious Engagement*
Oct 5 - Dorothy C. Buck: Louis Massignon and the Badaliya Prayer -- A Franciscan Inspiration
Oct 12 - War & Peace Update*
Oct 19 - Ed Gaffney: "Home" in Israel and Palestine.
Oct 26 - Bob Maat: A Continuing Journey of Nonviolence
Nov 2 - A Double Feature on Dorothy Day: Sarah Melici's play & Claudia Larson's Documentary
Nov 9 - Anna Brown: Etty Hillesum--The Language of the Incandesent Heart
Nov 16 - Marie Ponsot and Lawrence Joseph: Poetry against nonviolence

Why the meetings? I'll let the Worker itself explain:

In keeping with Peter Maurin's recognition of the need for ongoing
clarification of thought, we invite you to join us for our weekly Friday night
meetings. The meetings are held either at Maryhouse--55 East Third St,
212-777-9617, or St. Joseph House, 36 East First St, 212-254-1640. As far ahead
as we can see, those we will hold at First Street will be marked with an *. Feel
welcome to call and confirm the schedule. Both houses are between First and
Second Avenues (2nd Ave. stop on the F or V train).

So, if you're within driving distance of New York, please attend if you can. If you do, would you leave a comment here or send an e-mail to dnlcornwall AT alaska.net.

Catholic Worker Videos

This may not be news to you, but it looks like Catholic Workers in various places are exploring using internet videos.

Videos on Internet Archive with keyword Catholic Worker.
Videos on YouTube with keywords Catholic Worker.

If there is a desire, I could post a different CW themed video each week or month to this blog. If you'd like that, please either leave a comment or send me an e-mail to dnlcornwall AT Alaska DOT net. If I don't hear from anybody by 10/1, I'll assume this isn't something you want.