On Pilgrimage: by Robert Ellsberg
Upon her death in 1980, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was famously described as the most significant, interesting, and influential figure in the history of American Catholicism. That significance has become only more evident in the last decades as her distinctive integration of faith with the cause of peace, care for the earth, and solidarity with the poor has become an integral challenge for the mission of the church. This collection of her final columns illustrates her signature effort to balance three impulses: direct service of the poor; protest against the system that causes so much poverty and injustice; and an appeal to the possibility of a new society, animated by new values. Even as she aged, her last years were marked by her final protests and arrests, the opening of a shelter for homeless women, and the slow culmination of her earthly pilgrimage. These writings, the last testament of a life of faith, service, activism, point toward a new saintliness for our time.Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social crusader, and fervent Catholic convert who lived from 1897 to 1980. She founded the Catholic Worker in 1933 with Peter Maurin, a community dedicated to direct relief for the poor and homeless, solidarity with the dispossessed, and social transformation. Day took part in labor fights in the 1930s, the Civil Rights movement, and nonviolent, pacifist opposition to militarism in WWII, Vietnam, and the Cold War, and her claim for canonization in the Catholic Church is still pending. Robert Ellsberg was a member of Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker community in New York City for the last five years of her life (1975-80), serving as managing editor of The Catholic Worker for two years. He is also the author of All Saints and the editor of Dorothy Day: Collected Writings and All the Way to Heaven: Dorothy Day's Selected Letters.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781626984592 |
| ISBN 10 | 162698459X |
| Title | On Pilgrimage: |
| Author | Robert Ellsberg |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orbis Books (USA) |
| Year published | 2022-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
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