Colman McCarthy

Colman McCarthy, a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter, directs the Center for Teaching Peace, in Washington. He teaches courses on nonviolence at Georgetown University Law Center, American University, the University of Maryland and three public high schools.

Currently

  • Dorothy Day's Day

    July 1, 2008 Subscribe

    The movement she inspired--passionate, pacifist and siding with the scorned--is seventy-five and going strong.

2005

  • The Outsider

    December 9, 2005

    Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement, died 25 years ago this month. Today Catholic Workers are in Cuba, keeping vigil outside the US Naval Prison at Guantanamo Bay and keep a vigil for detainees. This Colman McCarthy meditation on Day's funeral sheds light on Catholic Workers as a political and social force.

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