Dorothy Day and the Church

Our anthology of articles from the 2015 conference at the University of St. Francis.

On May 13-15, 2015, the University of Saint Francis and Our Sunday Visitor sponsored the conference ‘Dorothy Day and the Church: Past, Present and Future’ in Fort Wayne.

More than 120 attendees, scholars and workers, gathered together to celebrate both Dorothy’s remarkable life and enduring legacy for the Church. This volume gathers together most of the papers and homilies given at this conference, offering a breadth and depth of material which will benefit both casual and scholarly readers, and both students and practitioners of her experiment in gospel living.

Some topics:

• Spiritual and Liturgical Influences on Dorothy Day

• Dorothy Day and Distributism

• Peter Maurin’s Influence on Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

• An Ecology of Hospitality

• Dorothy Day’s Far-Flung Friendships

• The Personalism of Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker

Paperback, 436 pp. $20.95