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In the darkest days of the Great Depression in the United States, two visionaries, Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, saw a broken economic system and refused to accept it. Instead, they built the foundations of a new society based on radical equality and human dignity. In 1933, they launched the Catholic Worker, not just as a newspaper, but as a living structure for social reconstruction. Their tool was a deceptively simple three-point program: Houses of Hospitality, Farming

It's Easter, and at this time of year I often hear the phrase “so that the scripture would be fulfilled” (John 19:36) given as the reason why Jesus had to suffer and die on the cross. I have always wondered at this kind of reasoning. This morning, however, I was thinking the words of John may not so much reveal a divine plan, but rather how Jesus had listened to the scriptures. Jesus “fulfilled” the written words by experiencing them in His own flesh. Rather than carrying out