Dorothy Day

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"The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy Day, a woman who gave of herself for most of her life to help those less fortunate, and to press for social justice in America. She was also a religious leader as one of the founding members of the Catholic Worker Movement, a movement that sought social justice from a Catholic perspective. One of the important forces in her life was God, and she talks about her relationship with God and how it developed in this book. Her story is the story of many people who were religious as children, who then stopped believing because religion was no longer important to them or because they lost their faith for some reason. Like others, Day returned to the Church later in life, but she became an extremely active member.


The place of religion in her childhood is apparent in the opening chapter as Day talks about the meaning and experience of going..."

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• Book Review # 20958 : "Dorothy Day "The Long Lonliness"

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