Dan Morris-Young is NCR's former West Coast correspondent. He is also a veteran of the Catholic press, having warmed the seats of the editor's chair at Catholic newspapers in Spokane, Oakland, Seattle, Little Rock and San Francisco. He authored a syndicated humor column for Catholic News Service for more than three decades, and has written for The Tablet, Huffington Post, Liberty, St. Anthony Messenger, U.S. Catholic, Our Sunday Visitor, National Catholic Reporter, The National Observer, and Mt. Rainier High School's student paper. Others, too. He even won awards.
As germane, perhaps, is that he has also bused tables at the Pine Shed Restaurant; copy-boyed at The Spokesman-Review; owned and operated a tavern; managed sales at a mobile home dealership; directed an insurance and investment practice; and made much of his family's income under water—harvesting sea urchins and sea cucumbers in the San Juan Islands and Alaska. No joke.
Dan contributes to NCR's The Field Hospital.
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San Francisco priests voice frustrations with Cordileone at convocation
Laid bare, participants said, were tensions over muddy communications, lack of consultation, low clergy morale, unilateral initiatives by Archbishop Cordileone, and his embrace of "a pre-Vatican II church."
Parish roundup: Pen pal in Kenya inspires Colorado girl to fund water projects abroad
The Field Hospital: San Francisco parishes go to the U.S.-Mexico border; a young person raises money for water pumps and toilets in countries that need them; Honolulu parish gets ready to share the story of two saints who helped Hansen's disease patients
Parish roundup: Literacy Wagon for migrant kids; Blessed Stanley Rother Shrine
The Field Hospital: Illinois parish aids a summer learning program for children of migrant laborers; ministry in the Dominican Republic; groundbreaking planned for Oklahoma City shrine.
From Bay Area, volunteers head to El Paso: 'Time for Catholics to be Catholic'
The Field Hospital: San Francisco volunteers traveled to El Paso in July to serve refugees at Annunciation House. That team was the first, and the project plans more, with a roster drawn in by bulletin announcements.
