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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness
27th April 2022: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm BST
An event every week that begins at 5:00 pm on Wednesday, happening 8 times
Discussion group
Weekly online discussions on sections of Dorothy Day’s The Long Loneliness.
Dorothy Day is one of the most interesting Catholics of the 20th century. An American convert to Catholicism from radical socialism, she founded the Catholic Worker movement, which developed and practices a sort of Catholic anarchism. Her readily available autobiography, The Long Loneliness, is nicely written, honest, clear, thought-provoking and not too long. We will read the book carefully, and discuss everything from politics to liturgy, from conversion to modern holiness.
The group will be led by Edward Hadas, Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and author of Counsels of Imperfection: Thinking through Catholic Social Teaching, and by James Bergida, Junior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall and an Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Economics at Christendom College.
Schedule:
Week One (April 27): Introduction and All chapters from “Confession” through “Home”
Week Two (May 4): “Adolescence” through “Journalism”
Week Three (May 11): “The Masses” through “A Time for Searching”
Week Four (May 18): “Man Is Meant for Happiness” through “Love Overflows”
Week Five (May 25) “Jobs and Journeys” and “Peasants of the Pavements”
Week Six (June 1): “Paper, People, and Work” and “Labor”
Week Seven (June 8): “Community” through “Retreat”
Week Eight (June 15): “’War Is the Health of the State’” through “Postcript”
Free and open for all. Registration is required.
For more information: Contact Edward Hadas (edward.hadas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk)
Contact:
Las Casas Institute
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk