The Word Among Us

July 2007 Issue

No Plaster Saint

Catherine Doherty and Madonna House

By: Mary Bazzett Nadeau

I was fixing supper one evening, with the TV blaring in the background, when I heard a woman’s voice say, "There’s no phone, no radio, no TV, and it’s quiet for twenty-four hours." That caught my attention, and I turned to watch.

The speaker was from Madonna House, a community founded by Catherine de Hueck Doherty, whose cause for canonization was opened in 2000....

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