What is the market place? Is it the secular city? Is it the… - Catherine Doherty

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What is the market place? Is it the secular city? Is it the factual market place, that is to say the urban inner city? Is it suburbia where all the supermarkets are? No. The market place is simply the soul of man. It is the place where man trades his soul either to God or to the devil or to the 'in between', with indifference, tepidity and complacency.

Catherine Doherty

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Catherine de Hueck Doherty (née Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkina; 15 August 1896 – 14 December 1985) was a Catholic social activist, author, and foundress of the Madonna House Apostolate.

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Native Name: Екатерина Фёдоровна Колышкина

Alternative Names: Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty • Catherine de Hueck • Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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