ByDorothy Day
Summary: Recalls her own prison experiences while visiting Alderson Federal Prison in West Virginia. Mentions books on prison life. Also visits friends and family living nearby in the hills. (The Catholic Worker, December 1975, 1, 2, 8. DDLW #565).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Depicts the loving work of Dorothy and Bill Gauchat with “the saddest, most hopeless, most incurable of crippled children. Says she couldn’t put their book down until she finished the last page.”The story is a picture of what could be done.” (DDLW #915). The Catholic Worker, December 1975 4,7
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Speaks of loneliness and how community dispels it, even though quarrels sometimes erupt. Explains where the title of her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, came from. (The Catholic Worker, October-November 1975, 2. DDLW #564).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Fondly recalls Sister Aloysia who guided her preparation for Baptism, mentions tax resistance, and the enthusiasm of a convention of 16,000 charismatic Catholics whom she wishes would embrace peace activities, rejection of war, and income tax resistance. However, she admires their return to Scripture and communitarian spirit. Keyword: Pentecostal (The Catholic Worker, October-November 1975, 1, 8. DDLW #557).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Praises the persistent, peaceful, and gentle methods used to halt the eviction of peace activists in a Cincinnati house–“picketing, leafleting, resisting, speaking the truth.” Keywords: nonviolence (DDLW #556).The Catholic Worker, September 1975, 3.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Eulogizes Arthur Sheehan who was a Catholic Worker for many years and a biographer of Peter Maurin. Remembers him as a calm presence, an ecumenist, peacemaker, author, and contemplative. Keyword: obituary (The Catholic Worker, September 1975, 2, 8. DDLW #555).
ByDorothy Day
Poverty is a very mysterious thing. We need to be always writing and thinking about it. It would seem strange…
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Meandering reflections on joy in the midst of trouble, irritations mixed with beauty, peacemaking and resistance whilst threats of war persist. Invokes numerous Saints. (The Catholic Worker, July-August 1975, 2, 8. DDLW #553).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Vignettes from her date book–life at the beach house on Staten Island, visitors, books she is reading, meetings attended, and visits to Catholic Worker houses and her family. (The Catholic Worker, June 1975, 1, 2, 6. DDLW #552).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Traces the role of Mary has had in her prayer life–prayers learned before her conversion, her prayer at the national shrine to work for the worker and the poor, the little office of Mary, and the Memorare. Mentions the construction work on Maryhouse. (The Catholic Worker, May 1975, 1, 2, 12. DDLW #550).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Talks of means and ends by juxtaposing news of the end of the Vietnam war with an obituary for Bill Gauchat. A close follower of Peter Maurin, Bill Gauchat and his family exemplified a life built around all the works of mercy. (The Catholic Worker, May 1975, 3. DDLW #551).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Says the Catholic Worker is a school where volunteers can learn their vocation and to overcome fear. Notes prisoners of conscience, being jailed eleven times, visiting prisoners, and the witness of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Keywords: prison (DDLW #548). The Catholic Worker, March-April 1975, 2, 8.
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Contemplates the mysteries of birth and death, the continuing strength of the youth and peace movements, examples of Peter Maurin’s “Green Revolution,” and the passing of her long-time friend Maisie Ward. (The Catholic Worker, February 1975, 2, 7. DDLW #547).
ByDorothy Day
Summary: Describes time spent at the beach house, and a retreat at Corpus Christi Monastery. Eulogizes two long-time Catholic Workers, Julia Porcelli Moran and Jim Rogan, who recently had died. (The Catholic Worker, January 1975, 1, 2, 8. DDLW #546).
