Loaves and Fishes

by Day, Dorothy

• ISBN13: 9781570751561
• ISBN10: 1570751560
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-01
• Publisher: Orbis Books

Summary

Marking the centenary of Dorothy Day's birth in 1897, this new edition of Loaves and Fishes makes a modern religious classic available to a new generation. A companion to her autobiography, The Long Loneliness, this is Day's frank and compelling account of thirty years as leader of the Catholic Worker Movement and editor of its newspaper. Blending a journalist's perceptions with emotional commitment and warm humor, she shares experiences amid the abandoned and impoverished, the hopeful and idealistic. In the process, she brings to life a host of remarkable personalities, and reveals a life of faith in action. A unique document of American social history, Loaves and Fishes offers powerful testimony to the unswerving faith of a woman dedicated to improving the lot of all people, and creating a viable alternative to the growing ills of a chaotic world.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(2)
Thomas Merton
Introduction	xi	(6)
Robert Coles
Preface	xvii
Part I Beginnings Are Always Exciting	3	(68)
1. A Knock at the Door	3	(9)
2. Everyone's Paper	12	(17)
3. Houses of Hospitality	29	(15)
4. Communitarian Farms	44	(19)
5. The War Years	63	(8)
Part II Poverty and Precarity	71	(24)
6. The Faces of Poverty	71	(4)
7. The Insulted and the Injured	75	(7)
8. A Baby Is Always Born with a Loaf of Bread under Its Arm	82	(13)
Part III Those Who Work Together	95	(58)
9. Peter Maurin, Personalist	95	(11)
10. Picture of a Prophet	106	(16)
11. Spiritual Advisors	122	(13)
12. Editors also Cook	135	(18)
Part IV Things That Happen	153	(34)
13. What Has Become of Anna?	153	(3)
14. The Bodenheims	156	(6)
15. Strange Visitors, Distinguished Visitors	162	(4)
16. The "Cold Turkey" Cure	166	(21)
Part V Love in Practice	187
17. A Block Off the Bowery	187	(13)
18. Peter Maurin Farm	200	(10)
19. Our Day	210