Why my Dominican grandfather makes me proud to be an American
My Dominican grandfather was as American as McDonald’s apple pie.
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Laboring for Beauty: The Tradition of Catholic Worker Art
Since the first Catholic Worker artists filled the pages of its newspaper with woodblock prints, art has been an important dimension of the organization’s vision of the reconstruction of the social order.
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