ByDorothy Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes Summary: Writes of how people are treated poorly at the Home Relief office. Describes a visit to the garden commune on Staten Island, swims, walks, the inviting smells of plants, and visiting children from Harlem. (The Catholic Worker, July-August 1935, 2. DDLW #291).
ByDorothy Day
Reading Time: 4 minutes Summary: An account of moving everything from Maryfarm in Newburgh to Peter Maurin Farm on Staten Island and the birth of Tamar’s seventh child, Martha. (DDLW #240) The Catholic Worker, July-August 1955, 3.
ByDorothy Day
Reading Time: 3 minutes Summary: Summary: A passionate rejection of the false security of wages and the maxim “Be moderate, be prudent.” Instead she promotes the counsels and precepts of the gospel in this time of world-wide crisis for religion and poverty. She asks, “What right has any one of us to have security when God’s poor are suffering?” (DDLW #939: The Catholic Worker, Jul-Aug 1935, page 4)
