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Skip to the navigation . Skip to the content . Since 2004 I've been the religion reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 2005 I was the Templeton Religion Reporter of the Year, awarded by the Religion Newswriters Association for “excellence in enterprise reporting and versatility in the field of religion in the secular press.” Befor...

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THE RELUCTANT SAINT; WILL THE MOVEMENT TO CANONIZE SOCIAL ACTIVIST DOROTHY DAY OVERSHADOW THE MOVEMENT SHE FOUNDED?

Will the movement to canonize Dorothy Day overshadow the movement she founded?
- Published:
  1. Chicago Tribune, December 26, 1999
- Metainfo:
  - 4716 words
  - 157.2 inches
The message "Christ Died for Our Sins" looms in large letters above the Uptown Baptist Church on Wilson Avenue. Below, among the adult bookstores and hair-weave emporiums, men with shopping bags sit on corners, looking as if they need a shave and something to eat. Half a block north, on Kenmore Avenue, sits St. Francis of Assisi House--an oasis in the middle of what Chris Wilkey calls "the center of homelessness on the North Side.

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