Category: Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin

G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics: Neither Socialism nor Capitalism

The following is a talk given at the American Chesterton Society annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota, in June 2001. By Mark and Louise Zwick, Houston Catholic Worker Dorothy Day and G. K Chesterton were contemporaries. Both came into Catholicism in the 1920′s, Chesterton in 1922 at age 48 and Dorothy five years later at age… Read More G.K. Chesterton and Dorothy Day on Economics: Neither Socialism nor Capitalism

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Sanctity

By Dorothy Day. We must begin sometime to aim at sanctity. The tragedy, Newman said, is never to begin. Or having put one’s hand to the plough, to turn back. To become a tired radical. To settle down to relish comfortably past performances of self-sacrifice and self-denial. It is not enough, St. Ambrose remarks, to… Read More Sanctity

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