Today’s celebrity Catholic converts lean conservative

Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, 20th-century converts, shook up an emerging American Catholic Church. Day brought a zest for socialist and pacifist views with the Catholic Worker she co-founded in New York. Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote passionately for Black civil rights and warnings on nuclear destruction from his hermitage in rural Kentucky. In this century, […]

Sep 23, 2024 - 12:00
Today’s celebrity Catholic converts lean conservative
Dorothy Day and Thomas Merton, 20th-century converts, shook up an emerging American Catholic Church. Day brought a zest for socialist and pacifist views with the Catholic Worker she co-founded in New York. Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote passionately for Black civil rights and warnings on nuclear destruction from his hermitage in rural Kentucky. In this century, […]

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