Published	Title & Summary
1933 May	The Listener - May 1933 (DOC #934) A collection of vignettes about the unemployed, union efforts, working conditions, wages, education, companies—“The depression goes on.”
1933 November	No Continuing City (DOC #936) In a fiction-like style, tells a story of Mary Blount, a wife and working-class mother who goes to the city hospital clinic for a prenatal checkup. She begins the day joyfully, but ends experiencing indignity and cruelty from the nurses who fail to listen to her and understand her need for modesty.
1934 February	Another Miracle, Please, St. Joseph! (DOC #937) After cataloging the “little miracles” of gifts that arrive just in time—blankets, food, clothes, offer of a moose—she asks for bill money. She rejects business approaches to fund raising and says their method comes from the gospel and the “importunity” suggested. They trust they will receive.
1934 May	Thank You! (DOC #938) Thanks the readers for gifts to pay the printing bill, and discusses their choice of holy poverty and identification with the workers. Reports the Communist Party's recruitment of African-Americans, and predicts that they will be first to be hurt in any strikes. Describes the joy of the month of May, with the opening up of houses and the fresh sounds and smells of the city.
1935 May	"Day After Day - May 1935" (DOC #288) Describes house cleaning in preparation for Easter. Catholic workers promulgated Catholic social principles in leaflets and speaking in Union Square at a Communist rally. Notes the work of priests with men on the bowery.
1935 June	"Day After Day - June 1935" (DOC #289) Reports on the ongoing work on the garden commune, and how it provides a green sanctuary from the city offices. Transcribes two conversations with the working poor, one from a biscuit factory worker who had been on strike and one from a restaurant worker. Describes her daughter’s confirmation and the lovely gift of a hand-printed catechism.
1935 July	Security (DOC #939) Summary: A passionate rejection of the false security of wages and the maxim “Be moderate, be prudent.” Instead she promotes the counsels and precepts of the gospel in this time of world-wide crisis for religion and poverty. She asks, “What right has any one of us to have security when God’s poor are suffering?”
1936 January	"Day by Day - January 1936" (DOC #297) Contrasts the destitution of winter and the spiritual needs for beauty and contemplation. Comments on social organization, strikes, the destitution of winter cold, the thousands fed by the city. Notes the beauty of trees in winter and an art exhibit. Quotes Maritain on beauty and contemplation and appreciates an opera on the radio in spite of truck noise and ringing phones.
1936 July	C. W. States Stand on Strikes (DOC #940) Articulates their position on strikes while eschewing Communist class war tactics and violent means. Supports strikers because of their god-given dignity and the unity of the Mystical Body—“We are members one of another.” They aim to change the social order, accept sacrifice and failure, to build the Kingdom of Heaven.
1938 July	Bills and Things--Day After Day (DOC #908) Reports on the current worsening employment conditions in the country, and the concomitant need to send out another appeal for funds, even though it is summer. Gives an account of the communal work on the farm, and the problems of bills and the need for help during the canning season.
1948 May	"Without Poverty We Are Powerless" (DOC #468) Asserts the importance of voluntary poverty even if it means we are fools for Christ. Then gives a loving appreciation of Peter Maurin’s holy poverty, blending light-hearted stories and a graphic description of his dementia and silent suffering. Quotes from Fr. Faber on death in anticipation of Peter’s death within a year.
1950 November	"On Pilgrimage - November 1950" (DOC #616) Describes the mission of the new Peter Maurin farm on Staten Island, starting and ending with thanks to God and to the readers for making it possible. Expresses hope in the new bakery venture. Speaks of needing to forgo a trip to Rome because she cannot sign the oath of allegiance for the passport. Justifies voluntary poverty and how it makes Houses of Hospitality possible. Notes their work is a vocation and says “all must perform the works of mercy.”
1951 April	"On Pilgrimage - April 1951" (DOC #621) When her son-in-law loses his job she ruminates on the plight of the wage earner and conditions of labor, especially in the clothing mills and among farm workers. Recounts stories of grueling labor conditions and inveighs against “our present finance capitalistic system.” She is appealing “to our capacity to love and the reformation of our lives…”
1951 September	"On Pilgrimage - September 1951' (DOC #946) An account of the trip by a dilapidated car to Maryfarm, Newburgh, and the spiritual renewal of a subsequent four-day retreat. Rallies to the cause of Ruth Reynolds, on trial in Puerto Rico for sedition. Reflects on the death of William Randolph Hearst, whose newspapers she disdained.
1955 March	"On Pilgrimage - March 1955" (DOC #683) Deplores the destitution brought on by the present social order of capitalist industrialism, describing their soup line. In contrast, lauds the self-sufficient life of Hutterite communities. Supports organic gardening. Concludes the solution to physical destitution is through spiritual means: “We are en-route, on pilgrimage, and our job is to trust, to hope and to pray, and also to work ‘to make that kind of a social order when it is easier for man to be good.’”
1956 April	"On Pilgrimage - April 1956" (DOC #702) Tells the story of their travails with the city courts after being fined for operating "a fire trap." Reaffirms personal responsibility as the way to care for the poor, decrying "Holy Mother the State's" taking over such care.
1960 February	"On Pilgrimage - February 1960" (DOC #761) Shares reactions to an article by Thomas Merton and a biography of Charles de Foucauld. Notes we have hardly begun to understand the gospels. Tells stories of feeling fear and the senseless cold war. Tells of the work of religious and lay groups in Minnesota. Says “we need to pray for vocations, all kinds of vocations.”
1960 July	"On Pilgrimage - July/August 1960" (DOC #949) Explains the lack of a full column due to the birth of her latest granddaughter.
1960 July	"Reflections On The Connection" (DOC #766) Focuses on drug addiction which she first encountered in prison. Attends a performance of the play “The Connection” about drug addicts. Lauds the play and reiterates Peter’s vision of building a society where it is easier to be good. Says we cannot change people.
1962 May	Appeal - May 1962 (DOC #931) A semi-annual appeal for funds, noting their expenses for food, rend, and even burials. Says it’s foolish, but calculates they’ve served 132,000 meals since the last appeal. Points to the widow who fed Elias when he begged and her reward.
1962 November	"On Pilgrimage to Cuba--Part IV" (DOC #798) Notes the fervor of the revolution in the wake of the missile crisis of October. Mentions the open seminaries and work of religious sisters, food shortages, friendly people, absence of drunkenness. When asked if she could find nothing wrong in Cuba she lists their many struggles.
1965 November	"Suicide or Sacrifice?" (DOC #834) Reflects on the self-immolation of Roger LaPorte as a protest against the Vietnam war. Discusses suicide doctrinally, psychologically, and in literature. Tries to understand his intentions and the need for protest in the midst of war and building for war. Speaks of the notion of the victim soul and why she prays for those who kill themselves.
1965 November	"On Pilgrimage - November 1965" (DOC #835) Tales of her travel to Rome to join twenty women on a ten-day fast for peace at Vatican Council II. Shares vignettes of friends, clergy, meetings, books, prayers, Masses, and accommodations. Describes the pain that accompanied her fast.
1968 January	Untitled (DOC #947) Expressed support for all men facing conscription for the Vietnam War.
1971 February	On Pilgrimage - February 1971 (DOC #933) A plea not to prejudge Angela Davis and Communists. Continues with many stories of interracial actions of Catholic Workers from the 30s onward, tying the horrible past and present war in Southeast Asia. Reminds us of the primarcy of the spiritual in the “little it is we do, or can do.” Yet we are bound together, “members one of another.” Even from evil God can bring great good.
1979 May	"On Pilgrimage - May 1979" (DOC #598) A collection of jottings about visitors, gifts, books, the Holy Week liturgy and protests against nuclear submarines. Cesar Chavez visits.
1979 December	"A Knight For A Day" (DOC #601) A tender reminiscence of Stanley Vishnewski, the first to join her after she met Peter Maurin. Recalls how he saved her life, his companionship, generosity, and those who delighted in him. “I miss Stanley.”