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Showing posts with label Dorothy Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dorothy Day. Show all posts
Saturday, August 16, 2025

The Panhandler on Siegen Lane: The Student Loan Crisis and Reflections on Dorothy Day

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I took the Siegen Lane exit off of Interstate 10 a few days ago and saw a panhandler standing at the end of the exit ramp. He held a sign th...
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Sunday, May 21, 2023

Our Lady of Guadalupe miraculously appears at a railroad crossing on Houston's Kirby Street

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I subscribe to the Houston Catholic Worker , the official newspaper of Casa Juan Diego , the Catholic Worker Hospitality House in Houston, T...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Congressman Alcee Hastings introduces bill to abolish corporal punishment in schools, but the bill will go nowhere

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Congressman Alcee Hastings, dean of the Florida congressional delegation, introduced a bill last month to abolish corporal punishment in th...
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Monday, August 11, 2014

For what cause would I send my own children or grandchildren to die overseas? Genocide in Iraq

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As my small band of readers know, I have two blogs: a blog on Catholicism and culture and a blog on the federal student loan program. Occasi...
Monday, December 23, 2013

Bah humbug: Why are the secularists so mean spirited?

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Ross Douthat  recently wrote a perceptive essay in the New York Times about the spiritual condition of American society.   Today, Douthat ...
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Borrowing money at interest: The root cause of the student loan crisis

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Many people underestimate the magnitude of the student loan crisis because they forget that student-loan debtors borrow money at interest. T...