Book Review: The Catholic Worker Movement – Intellectual and Spiritual Origins by Mark and Louise Zwick

(My husband showed me this book in a half-price bookstore a couple of years ago and after reading it my life has never been the same. This book introduced me to the Catholic Worker movement, which I barely knew beforehand. It now stands as the first of many books I have read about the movement [...]

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The Power of an Adjective: “Illegal” Immigrants

Last week was National Migration Week and Michael and I decided to go to the Houston Catholic Worker, also called Casa Juan Diego to drop off some donations for any needs they have at this house of hospitality. At Casa Juan Diego they feed, care, and house the poor, refugees and migrants. Houston, [...]

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The True Essence of a Woman

A new birth control pill that eliminates a woman’s menstrual cycles was approved recently by the FDA. What are some of the critics saying?
But some critics say the elimination of a period as a “lifestyle choice” could be bad for women’s health. “Menstrual suppression is unnatural,” health psychologist Paula Derry wrote in an editorial in [...]

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Universality of God’s Creation

Hannah Arendt in her Essays in Understanding went a step further when talking about how many Germans felt ashamed of being German following the atrocities committed during the Nazi regime when she said: “I have often felt tempted to answer that I felt ashamed of being human.” She says this because of the Judeo-Christian [...]

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