Dorothy Day

Jan 2, 2024 | plough.com | Eberhard Arnold |Dietrich Bonhoeffer |Dorothy Day |C. S. Lewis

About The Book • Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Illumination Book Awards, Christian Living• Silver Medal Winner, 2017 Benjamin Franklin Award in Religion from Independent Book Publishers AssociationWhy, in an age of connectivity, are our lives more isolated and fragmented than ever? And what can be done about it? The answer lies in the hands of God’s people. Increasingly, today’s Christians want to be the church, to follow Christ together in daily life.

Oct 1, 2023 | plough.com | Dorothy Day

The spiritual works of mercy are to admonish the sinner, to instruct the ignorant, to counsel the doubtful, to comfort the sorrowful, to bear wrongs patiently, to forgive all injuries, and to pray for the living and the dead. The corporal works of mercy are to feed the hungry, to give drink to the thirsty, to clothe the naked, to ransom the captive, to harbor the harborless, to visit the sick, and to bury the dead.

Apr 4, 2023 | catholicworker.org | Dorothy Day

A Carmelite priest was called to the Emergency Ward of Bellevue Hospital last month where Roger LaPorte lay dying of his self-inflicted burns which covered ninety-five per-cent of his body. According to the testimony of the priest, Roger having made his confession, made an act of contrition in a loud clear voice.

Apr 4, 2023 | catholicworker.org | Dorothy Day

Don Lorenzo Milani is dead–in his early forties, of leukemia, and we mourn his passing. His was a mountain parish, in Barbiana, Italy. When he arrived there, there was only one elementary school of five grades to serve the community, five classes in one schoolroom. He made up his mind to teach the boys of the village who “grew up shy and despised.” For the last twelve years of his life he devoted himself to a group of boys who lived with him. “We receive guests in common.

Mar 2, 2023 | endsdaytime.news | Dorothy Day

DL Mayfield joins host Jessica Hooten Wilson to debate the life and writings of the self-described social employee and anarchist who gave up materials possessions to dwell a lifetime of peaceable battle for the poor. Reference books:Wild saint: Dorothy Day’s radical imaginative and prescient and problem for our timeby D.L. MayfieldThe Lengthy Loneliness: The Autobiography of a Legendary Catholic Social Activist by Dorothy DayTherese by Dorothy Daystudying scandal sponsored Brazos Press.