On Pilgrimage: The Seventies - Paperback

by Robert Ellsberg (Editor), Dorothy Day (Author)

Upon her death in 1980, Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was famously described as "the most significant, interesting, and influential figure in the history of American Catholicism." That significance has become only more evident in the last decades as her distinctive integration of faith with the cause of peace, care for the earth, and solidarity with the poor has become an integral challenge for the mission of the church. This collection of her final columns illustrates her signature effort to balance three impulses: direct service of the poor; protest against the system that causes so much poverty and injustice; and an appeal to the possibility of a new society, animated by new values. Even as she aged, her last years were marked by her final protests and arrests, the opening of a shelter for homeless women, and the slow culmination of her earthly "pilgrimage." These writings, the last testament of a life of faith, service, activism, point toward a new saintliness for our time.

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RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues

RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic

RELIGION / Meditations

Cover design: Ponie Sheehan

Cover photo: Bob Fitch

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Author Biography

Dorothy Day (1897-1980), whose cause for canonization is in process, was the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Her other Orbis titles include Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, Loaves and Fishes, From Union Square to Rome, Peter Maurin: Apostle to the World (with Peter Sicius), and On Pilgrimage: The Sixties.

Robert Ellsberg, the publisher of Orbis Books, was a member of the Catholic Worker community for the last five years of Day's life, including two years as managing editor of her newspaper. He has edited four previous volumes of Day's writings, including her selected writings, her diaries, selected letters, and On Pilgrimage: The Sixties.