Dorothy Day
Subtitle: love in action
By: Patrick Jordan
Series: People of God series; People of God (Collegeville, Minn.)
Publisher: Novalis; Liturgical Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780814637036; 9782896882212; 9780814637289
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Catholics; Biography; Women social reformers; Catholic Worker Movement; Catholiques; Biographies; Réformatrices sociales; Mouvement ouvrier catholique
Description: By any measure, Dorothy Day lived a fascinating life. She was a journalist, activist, single mother, convert, Catholic laywoman, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. A lifelong radical who took the gospels at their word, Dorothy Day lived among the poor as one of them, challenging both church and state to build a better world for all people. Steeped in prayer, the liturgy, and the spiritual life, she was jailed repeatedly for protesting poverty, injustice, and war. Through it all, she created a sense of community and remained down-to-earth and humanly approachable. To have known Dorothy Day was to have experienced not only her charm and humanity, but the purposefulness of her life. In Dorothy Day: Love in Action, Patrick Jordan-who knew her personally-conveys some of the hallmarks of Day's fascinating life and the spirit her adventure inspires. People of God is a series of inspiring biographies for the general reader. Each volume offers a compelling and honest narrative of the life of an important twentieth or twenty-first century Catholic. Some living and some now deceased, each of these women and men has known challenges and weaknesses familiar to most of us but responded to them in ways that call us to our own forms of heroism. Each offers a credible and concrete witness of faith, hope, and love to people of our own day. -- Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A chronology; title: Radical roots, molecular moral forces; title: Conversions; title: Principles and convergences; title: Catholicity and lady poverty; title: Peace and primacy of the spiritual; title: Depression and the duty of delight; title: A personalist; title: Sainthood?