On Pilgrimage: The Seventies - by Dorothy Day (Paperback)

About the Book

"Writings by Dorothy Day, venerable founder of the Catholic Worker movement, from the 1970s-the last decade of her life"--

Book Synopsis

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.

From the Back Cover

RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues

RELIGION / Christianity / Catholic

RELIGION / Meditations

Cover design: Ponie Sheehan

Cover photo: Bob Fitch

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978-1-62698-459-2

Review Quotes

"This collection of Dorothy Day's columns from the last years of her life highlights the qualities that truly make her such a unique human being. She embodies the meaning of faith in action, and points us all toward the promise that a better world is possible."--Maria Shriver

On Pilgrimage, the 70s, could also be called A Catholic Social Justice History of the United States. Dorothy Day's keen insight into the events of her time are astoundingly fresh, in part because she brings her whole self and her faith into engaging the news headlines of the day. Her writing is clever, profound, and juxtaposes her journalistic training with her slice-of-life updates on the chaotic jumble of The Catholic Worker. It is immensely readable, both informing and exposing the issues of the 1970s, and asking the reader to make parallels and applications to today. --D.L. Mayfield, author and activist

About the Author

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.