Dan Morris-Young

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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Nov 07, 2022

Seattle's interfaith dialogue pioneer Fr. William Treacy dies at 103

Fr. William Treacy, who died Oct. 16 at age 103, was a Pacific Northwest media personality, the co-founder of a 200-acre facility dedicated to interreligious dialogue, a sought-after speaker and author, and beloved pastor.

San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone leads the rosary at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption before Mass to conclude the Novena for Life Aug. 11. (CNS/Archdiocese of San Francisco Office of Human Life & Dignity/Debra Greenblat)

Oct 31, 2019

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."

Sep 11, 2019

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

Jean Stamatis, a volunteer from Sts. Faith, Hope and Charity Parish in Winnetka, Illinois, reads to children as part of the Literacy Wagon program for children of migrant families in the Diocese of Yakima, Washington. (Catholic Extension/Rich Kalonick)

Aug 28, 2019

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 left: Brinkley Johnson, site coordinator at Annunciation House, and volunteers Harry Hutzel, Richard Champion, Marco Matute, Evelyn Rodriguez, Patrice Kavanaugh and Peter Wise. Not pictured is group coordinator Petrina Grube, who took the photo.

Aug 15, 2019

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.

Local artists were commissioned to reduce the warehouse ambiance of the 125,000 square-foot, 500-bed Casa del Refugiado for refugees and asylum seekers in El Paso, Texas. (Petrina Grube)

Aug 15, 2019

Annunciation House volunteers 'on lockdown' during El Paso massacre

August volunteers had just arrived in El Paso to support Annunciation House's ministry to refugees, including its shelter a few miles away from the Walmart where the shooting took place.

Aug 14, 2019

Parish roundup: Picking up pieces in Mississippi

The Field Hospital: Catholic Extension is helping families broken by immigration raids; seafarers have special needs; witness to a marriage; KOC family of the year

Aug 02, 2019

At Napa, Lindsey Graham praises Trump, despite administration 'chaos'

At the closing address of the ninth annual Napa Institute conference, Republican Sen. Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina delivered an entertaining appeal for the reelection of President Donald Trump.

Utah Knights of Columbus 4th Degree District Marshall Richard Vigor, center, is flanked by members of the West Valley City Police Department following the Knights’ collection drive for stuffed animals for traumatized children. (Courtesy of Andy Airriess)

Jul 31, 2019

Parish roundup: Faith and space; caring for kids

The Field Hospital: Catholics in careers that orbit space and science share spirituality and ideas for the moon; Knights of Columbus collect 3,000 stuffed animals; parish theft in California.

Jul 26, 2019

At Napa Institute, Cardinal Burke points out 'pervasive errors' in contemporary church teaching

Catholic commentator George Weigel and high-profile papal critic Cardinal Raymond Burke exhorted the predominantly affluent Catholic assembly at the ninth annual Napa Institute to fight pervasive error, division and apostasy in the church and embrace its immutable teachings.

Noemi Amezcua, left, works to recruit potential foster families for FosterAll outside St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church, a parish within the Los Angeles Archdiocese, on Father’s Day, June 16. (RNS/Heather Adams)

Jul 17, 2019

Parish roundup: Outreach to the addicted; foster families; sanctuary

The Field Hospital: Funeral Mass for 9/11 first responder; tackling addiction in West Virginia and Pittsburgh; Latino foster parents sought in LA; civil penalties target sanctuary sites.

Jul 09, 2019

Napa Institute expands to offer legal, organizational resources to nonprofits

The organization that promotes traditionalist Catholicism announced that the Napa Legal Institute will help connect healthcare and education nonprofits with "Catholic lawyers who can provide legal counsel on corporate, tax and other non-litigation matters."

Jul 03, 2019

Parish roundup: Feeding people throughout Missouri; new film about sex trafficking

The Field Hospital: George Elliot's screenplay confronts trafficking victims "Lost in the Shadows"; creating burial clothes for infants; parishes throughout Missouri reach out to the hungry and the flood-ravaged; an anonymous letter about hidden depression.