Servant of God Catherine de Hueck Doherty d Aug 14 1985. A former Russian baronness, divorced, she gave up a successful career lecturing about her escape from Communism when she realized that just such a materialistic life and failure of Christian values had fed the Rev.
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She committed herself to live “the gospel without compromise”—first in a house of hospitality in Toronto, then in Friendship House in Harlem, dedicated to interracial justice, where Thomas Merton served for a time, and where she befriended Dorothy Day.
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Known for her earthy humor and righteous anger. When a society woman sniffed contemptuously, “You smell of the Negro,” Catherine retorted, “And you stink of hell!” Later she moved to Canada and formed Madonna House, a center of prayer.
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“The hunger for God can only be satisfied by a love that is face to face...It is only in the eyes of another that we can find the Icon of Christ. We must make the other person aware we love him. If we do, he will know that God loves him. He will never hunger again.”
She visited Maryknoll seminarians and is reported to have admonished, “People hunger for the word of God. Don’t feed them cream puffs!”
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