A play about Dorothy Day

Prisoners have often written about their lives behind bars but Jens Soering rsquo s The Church of the Second Chance stands out because it involved considerable research How a reader might ask could a person serving a life sentence for murder with only limited access to a typewriter and none to

Almost a fifth of college students are regular smokers according to a new report from the American Lung Association Yes that is where I began smoking big time Of 119 institutions in another study the ALA cites students at 109 institutions reported seeing promotions at a campus event ldquo Th

Some people hate subways but as a twice daily user ndash two trains into Manhattan from Brooklyn and two back ndash I have learned not only to accept that hour-plus ride each way but even to enjoy it Leaving Brooklyn soon after 5 a m I take my first train from the Crown Heights area four stops

Allan Figueroa Deck on ethnic ministry

Miguel d'Escoto's vision for the U.N.

A new school for boys in Newburgh, N.Y.

Memories of Dorothy Day, and the Catholic Worker houses in New York

A move from Manhattan to Brooklyn, and getting to know a new parish

There’s no way to undo what survivors of torture have suffered, but we can help them to get on with their lives,” Allen Keller, M.D., told me during an interview in his office at New York City’s Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the nation. Dr. Keller is director of