| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xli, 371 pages : portrait ; 25 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- The long way home. We scarcely know ourselves -- Beginnings -- Disorder -- New life -- Peasant of the pavements -- Day after day. To our readers -- Out of doors -- For gentle sabotage -- And now for a melancholy note -- Spiritual discourse -- Scavengers -- Bedrooms -- Another miracle, please, St. Joseph -- Thank you! -- Why write about strife and violence? -- Small things -- Midwinter -- Notes to myself -- Security -- To Christ : to the land! -- Grumblers -- A death in the family -- Only the will remains -- Thanksgiving -- The use of force -- Mysteries -- They knew him in the breaking of bread -- Michael Martin, porter -- Letter to the unemployed -- End of the line -- A lifetime job -- Works of mercy. Aims and purposes -- "And there remained only the very poor" -- Room for Christ -- Love is the measure -- The scandal of the works of mercy -- Here and now -- Inventory -- Poverty and precarity -- Little by little -- The pearl of great price -- The insulted and the injured -- Friends and family. Peter Maurin -- Mr. O'Connell -- Father Roy -- Ammon Hennacy -- Elizabeth Gurley Flynn -- Mike Gold -- Hugh Madden -- Gifts of the spirit. A baby is born -- About Mary -- Servant of peace -- A brief flame -- Holy obedience -- "What do the simple folk do?" -- Penance -- Adventures in prayer -- Therese -- On pilgrimage (1948) -- In fields and factories. Labor -- Our stand on strikes -- Memorial day in Chicago -- The disgraceful plight of migrant workers -- Blood on our coal -- Of justice and breadlines -- A brief sojourn in jail -- Politics and principles. Our country passes from undeclared to declared war -- Our brothers, the communists -- Visiting the prisoner -- This money is not ours -- A revolution near our shores -- We go on record -- On pilgrimage : twenty years. The fear of our enemies -- A family -- Snowed in -- War without weapons -- The mystery of the poor -- A prayer for peace -- If your brother stumbles -- "In peace is my bitterness most bitter" -- Martin Luther King -- The business of living -- A little kinder -- Strength to endure -- Priest and prophet -- All souls -- Holy fools -- The third part -- Psalms of rejoicing -- "Eye hath not seen ..." -- Fall appeal 1977 -- Sunrise -- "And again I say, Rejoice" -- Postscript. |
| Summary |
When she died in 1980, Dorothy Day was called "the most significant, interesting and influential person in the history of American Catholicism" (Commonweal), and "a non-violent social radical of luminous personality" (The New York Times). As co-founder in 1933 (with the French peasant philosopher Peter Maurin) of the Catholic Worker movement, and for almost fifty years editor and publisher of its newspaper, she applied the Gospels to a sweeping radical critique of our economic, social, and political system, and addressed the most urgent issues of our time: poverty, labor, justice, civil liberties, and disarmament. She saw the movement as an affirmation of life and sanity, and a way to "bring about the kind of society where it is easier to be good." The present volume is a selection of Dorothy Day's published work, spanning a period of over fifty years. Although the great majority of the pieces have been reprinted from The Catholic Worker, a number of other magazine articles are included, as well as selections from all her books. - Publisher. |
| Subject |
Church and social problems -- Catholic Church.
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| Added Author |
Ellsberg, Robert, 1955-
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| ISBN |
0394524993 |
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9780394524993 |
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0394714326 (paperback) |
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9780394714325 (paperback) |
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