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Dorothy Day: Cultural critic and Catholic activist
9th November 2022: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm GMT
An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, repeating until 30th November 2022
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) challenged the world to become more Christian, and challenged Christians to live up to their beliefs. The Catholic Worker movement, which she co-founded and continually inspired, put her many powerful and thoughtful words into action. In this term’s reading group, we will be looking at some of those words and actions, focussing on Loaves and Fishes, which is a collection of little essays, mostly concerned with the Worker houses and farms. We will also discuss selected other readings by and about her, on war and on poverty.
The meetings will be online. All are welcome. Register here.
The group will be led by Edward Hadas, a Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University. He is the author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching, published by Catholic University of America Press in 2021, and Money, Finance, Reality, Morality, published by Ethics International Press in 2022.
For further information, contact Edward at edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk
The readings:
Week 1 (12 Oct ): Loaves and Fishes, Chapters 1 and 2: pp 3-28
Week 2 (19 Oct): Loaves and Fishes, Chapters 3 and 4: pp. 29-62
Week 3 (26 Oct): Loaves and Fishes, Chapters 6, 7, and 8: pp. 71-92
Week 4 (2 Nov): Loaves and Fishes, Chapters 9 and 10: pp. 95-121
Week 5 (9 Nov): Loaves and Fishes, Chapters 13 and 14: pp. 153-161
Week 6 (16 Nov): Loaves and Fishes, Chapters 16 and 19: pp. 166-184; 210-221
Week 7 (23 Nov) Dorothy Day on war:
On pacifism in the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/360.html https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/868.html
On the Second World War: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/390.html
On the first nuclear bombing: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/554.html
On Vietnam: https://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/articles/250.html
Week 8 (30 Nov): Â Appreciations of Dorothy Day on poverty:
By Larry Chapp: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/Chapp_-_42.2_Poverty_and_Kenosis.pdf
By Father John Hugo: https://terrenouvelle.home.blog/fr-john-hugo-dorothy-day-apostle-of-the-industrial-age-1980/