“Jesus and Me?”
Google Image Just before the turn of the 20 th century, a child was born to a Brooklyn, NY, family that was "solid, patriotic, and middle class," says Wikipedia. The child’s father was a sportswriter who lost his newspaper job when she was an impressionable nine years old. He and her mother were married at an Episcopal church but their eventual family of five rarely attended church. The girl, however, was interested in religion from an early age, and eventually converted to Catholicism. She was an avid reader and fond of Upton Sinclair and the great Russian authors, Dostoevsky and Tolstoy . From them and other authors, she leaned about capitalism, socialism and extreme poverty. She eventually became a pacifist, a journalist and founder of the Catholic Worker Movement and Catholic Worker newspaper. "Political Radical" Many of you will already know that I’m writing about Dorothy Day, perhaps the best-known "political radical" among American Cath...