Catherine Doherty
Catherine de Hueck Doherty was a Russian-born Catholic activist who founded the Madonna House Apostolate in 1947. She was a pioneer in the struggle for interracial justice, spiritual writer, lecturer, and spiritual mother to priests and laity.
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Trending topics shown first"Identification is difficult but precious. It involves doing violence to yourself. Yet Scripture says that "heaven is taken by violence" to oneself . To identify oneself with the other is to love him b…"
"True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness and utter joy."
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