Author: Catherine Doherty

“It doesn’t do to make the earth angry,” said the Russian peasant. “It will punish us if we do.”

Long before concern for the environment became an urgent world issue, Catherine Doherty, foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate, drew on her childhood experience to incarnate the Christian vision in the community’s small farm, St. Benedict’s Acres.

In this remarkably prophetic book, she raises the issue of stewardship–of respect for animals, the earth, for machinery and for all creation. Farming, she tells us, is a way of walking with God