Comrades Stumbling Along
The Friendship of Catherine de Hueck Doherty and Dorothy Day as Revealed through Their Letters
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edited by Fr. Robert Wild
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176 pages — Trade Paperback, 5.5" x 8.25"
Alba House, 2009
ISBN 978-0-8189-1286-3
Catherine Doherty and Dorothy Day had a beautiful adventure of friendship together. This presentation of their companionship through their letters is meant to supply a somewhat forgotten chapter in the history of the apostolic laity of North America.
The friendship of these two was very deep, holy, and lasting. They had different personalities and approaches to almost everything. Their relationship, however, as proved by the correspondence between them over many years (published for the first time in this book), is a profound example of how Christ can bind together people of very diverse temperaments and backgrounds and unite them in love by the power of the Holy Spirit, thus inspiring us all.
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“I was mightily impressed by this great labor of love.... read it with rapt fascination.... It was a relationship marked by so much affection, despite obvious differences. Thank you for this!" — Robert Ellsberg, author of The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day
About Catherine Doherty
Catherine Doherty used her heritage as a Russian Christian as a matrix for responding to the needs of Christian life and work in the modern world. Her own personal pilgrimage led her to be “poor with the poor Christ” in the slums of Toronto and in Harlem; and later to the establishing of the world-wide Madonna House Apostolate. A dedicated wife and mother, Catherine was also a prolific writer of hundreds of articles, a best-selling author of dozens of books, a renowned national speaker, and a pioneer of social justice. Catherine Doherty's cause for canonization as a saint is now under consideration by the Catholic Church.
About the Editor
Fr. Robert Wild is a priest of Madonna House and lives as a poustinik. Having published a number of his own books, he helped in the editing of Catherine Doherty's early works and now serves as Postulator for her cause for canonization. Fr. Wild was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Buffalo in 1967, and had experience as both a Trappist and as a Carthusian before ordination.
