In this week’s issue, Joan Acocella writes about the radical vision of St. Francis of Assisi: http://nyr.kr/Von2Ne

Virginia Cannon on Dorothy Day:

Dorothy Day, a heroine of the American left and perhaps the most famous radical in the history of the American Catholic Church, led one of those remarkable lives that encompassed all the major upheavals of the twentieth century. The twenty-first century, remarkably, finds her being touted for canonization, with a big push this week from Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York. It’s a terrific idea: a home-town saint for the Occupy Wall Street era….

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(Source: newyorker.com)