Martha Hennessy
Evidence of Dorothy Day’s ‘everyday’ sainthood heads to Rome, boxed and beribboned
By Renée Roden — December 9, 2021
NEW YORK (RNS) — In a Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York, Cardinal Timothy Dolan gave a formal sendoff for two decades of work by Day’s supporters.
2 Plowshares activists win early release from prison
By Yonat Shimron — May 27, 2021
(RNS) — Martha Hennessy, 66, the granddaughter of Catholic Worker Movement founder Dorothy Day, and Carmen Trotta, 58, a Catholic worker at St. Joseph House in New York City, were released after serving six months in prison for breaking into a nuclear submarine base.
Dorothy Day’s granddaughter sentenced to prison for nuclear base break-in
By Yonat Shimron — November 13, 2020
(RNS) — Martha Hennessy received the lightest sentence of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 — the group of Catholic pacifists who broke into the Navy base 40 miles south of Brunswick, Georgia, on April 4, 2018.
Awaiting trial for breaking into a nuclear base, 7 Catholic activists are unrepentant
By Yonat Shimron — July 10, 2019
(RNS) — At a time when many faith-based social activists have moved on to other issues, seven Catholic pacifists aim to draw attention to the most ominous threat facing civilization: the risk of global nuclear annihilation.
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