Product Description: Thomas Merton's thought-provoking book is a series of essays about various Amerindian cultures. Among other topics, it touches on such matters as the centrality of a God-given vision to what it means to be human; what happens when we deny those different from us; personhood; and the place of art and religion in civilization...read more

Product Description: Book by Day, Dorothy

Orginally published: New York: Harper & Row, 1963. (view table of contents)

In this early autobiographical work, Dorothy Day offers the first account of her dramatic conversion. This concise and passionate work gives an account of Day's former comrades in the radical movement of the steps that led to her to embrace Christ and the Catholic Church. From Union Square to Rome is an essential book for all those fascinated by Day's unique brand of holiness and activism."I have said, somewhat flippantly, that the mass of bourgeois smug Christians who denied Christ in His poor made me turn to Communism, and that it was the Communists and working with them that made me turn to God."

A compelling autobiographical testament to the spiritual pilgrimage of a woman who, in her own words, dedicated herself "to bring[ing] about the kind of society where it is easier to be good.'

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The founder of the Catholic Worker Movement recounts her experiences as a young journalist, her conversion to Catholicism, and the circumstances that led to her political activism (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Meet - and pray with - America s greatest friend of the poor. In public, she was a famous social activist - a tireless advocate for the downtrodden and the founder of the Catholic Worker movement. But in private she was a woman of profound faith and insight, one who received the Eucharist every day and spent hours praying before the Blessed Sacrament...read more

Product Description: Dorothy Day has been described as the most significant, interesting, and influential person in the history of American Catholicism." Outside The Catholic Worker (which she edited from 1933 to her death), Day wrote for no other publication so often and over such an extended period - covering six decades - as the independent Catholic journal of opinion, Commonweal...read more

Product Description: "A great many of these notes were not written for publication, but for my own self in moments of trouble and in moments of peace and joy." Dorothy Day's reflections-written on the fly over five hectic years-reveal not only the beginnings of the Catholic Worker Movement, but the mind of a heroic woman as she responds to the demands of faith...read more

Product Description: Dorothy Day (1897–1980) was a well-known American journalist, activist, and Catholic convert whose cause for sainthood has been endorsed by the US bishops. She wrote numerous articles over a period of several decades for the prominent lay Catholic magazine Commonweal...read more