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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness

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...

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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness

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...

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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness

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...

Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason, balance and pragmatism

Dignity in street-level bureaucracies: beyond reason, balance and pragmatism A talk by Professor Tony Evans, Royal Holloway. Chair: Dr Jonathan Patterson, St Edmund Hall The first event of the 'Bureaucracy and Human Dignity' seminar series. Public service bureaucracies are messy organisations. Bureaucrats work within policies that are confused and confusing, and are expected to use...

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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness

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...

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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness

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...

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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness

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...

Human Dignity and the Socio-Economic Order

Dr Sohail Hanif, CEO of the National Zakat Foundation, will give the next seminar in the Human Dignity in the Islamic Tradition series which is jointly organised by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies and Blackfriars Hall. Dr Hanif will be speaking on the theme ‘Human Dignity and the Socio-Economic Order’. A vision of human...

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Dorothy Day: The Long Loneliness

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...

Women Religious and the Northern Irish Troubles

Blackfriars Hall St Giles, Oxford, United Kingdom

Nuns walking past an IRA grafitti An in-person talk by Drs Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty. Dianne Kirby and Briege Rafferty will relate how and why they brought together religious women peace-builders in a series of oral history witness seminars to discuss their experiences of the Northern Ireland conflict. The project began in 2015. It...