Working for the poor became her life goal from early on: Through her reading and contacts even as a child, she came to identify with the poor, even though her own family was of modest means. Born in New York, and raised in San Francisco until the great earthquake made her family relocate to Chicago, her father was a left-leaning journalist. I picked up this book after reading Eugene Peterson’s The Jesus Way. She spent her life working for the poor, and doing so in community. is required.I recently finished the autobiography of the American Catholic, and potential saint, Dorothy Day. The discussions are free and open for all. Week Eight (June 15): "'War Is the Health of the State'" through "Postcript" Week Seven (June 8): "Community" through "Retreat" Week Six (June 1): "Paper, People, and Work" and "Labor" Week Five (May 25) "Jobs and Journeys" and "Peasants of the Pavements" Week Four (May 18): "Man Is Meant for Happiness" through "Love Overflows" Week Three (May 11): "The Masses" through "A Time for Searching" Week Two (May 4): "Adolescence" through "Journalism" (An Introduction took place on 27 April.) The group will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching, and by James Bergida, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College. We will read the book carefully, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy, from conversion to modern holiness.
Her readily available autobiography, The Long Loneliness, is nicely written, honest, clear, thought-provoking and not too long. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism, she founded the Catholic Worker movement, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. This free weekly online discussion group starts tomorrow, 4 May 5 - 6pmĭorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century.
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