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By: Mike (Worcester)

Mike (Worcester) — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 03:58:55 +0000

An appropriate quotation:

It is one of the delightful anomalies of our time that when the Federal Bureau of Investigation began keeping its file on [Dorothy Day], its agents felt obliged to furnish explanatory footnotes with brief biographies of Francis of Assisi, Vincent de Paul, and others.
–Michael O. Garvey

By: Adam (Southern California)

Adam (Southern California) — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 21:50:09 +0000

Joe DiMaggio got ~~247~~ 347 pages, but somehow Sid Vicious rated only a paltry three.

By: David Gardner

David Gardner — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:42:54 +0000

Of course the Catholic Worker is based in Los Angeles!

By: Mike (Worcester)

Mike (Worcester) — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:18:53 +0000

The Catholic Worker movement is named after the Catholic Worker paper, which was named to compete directly with the Daily Worker. The idea was to provide the Catholic analysis and solution to the same problems that the Communists were addressing. The story goes that on one street corner a guy would be hawking papers, shouting "Read the Daily Worker!" while down the street Peter Maurin would be hollering, "Read the Catholic Worker daily!" Peter actually wanted to call the paper the Catholic Radical, which would probably have resulted in less confusion all around.

By: xradiographer

xradiographer — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:59:27 +0000

Maybe we should refer to them as the “International Catholic Workers of the World” ???