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Nation/World news briefs: Aug. 8, 2022
Deacon Tom Cornell, longtime Catholic peacemaker and activist, dies at 88
Deacon Tom Cornell, a co-founder of Pax Christi USA as well as the Catholic Peace Fellowship and a decadeslong associate of Catholic Worker co-founder Dorothy Day, died Aug. 1.
Catholic activist has been anti-hunger, anti-war, not ‘antifa,’ friends say
Martin Gugino, a 75-year-old protester and longtime Catholic Worker peace activist, lies on the ground after he was shoved by two Buffalo police officers June 4.
Sainthood cause for Dorothy Day picking up steam in U.S.
The sainthood cause for Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, believes it could have all of the documentation prepared at some point next year to send to the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes.
Even before airing, Dorothy Day film tops Amazon documentary chart
The maker of the film asked Oscar-winning actress Susan Sarandon to bring Day’s words to life on the screen, most of them from Day’s autobiography, “The Long Loneliness.”