Essays Tagged: "Catholic Worker Movement"

Dorothy Day's "The Long Loneliness" - and her issues with soup kitchens and simple christian life.

ought she was doing the right thing, I do not believe that divorcing her husband because he was not catholic was necessary in order to achieve ultimate salvation. On the other hand, I believe that Mas ... other hand, I believe that Massa is correct in that Day was once quoted as saying:"I first became a Catholic because I felt that the Catholic Church was the church of the poor...the church of all immi ...

(3 pages) 76 1 4.5 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Los Angeles Catholic Worker and how it contributes to the Works of Mercy, the Works of Peace and the Spiritual Works of Mercy by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin

The Catholic Worker movement is composed of several Catholic communities founded by Dorothy Day and Pete ... unities founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in the 1930’s during the Great Depression. The Catholic Worker aims to live its life by the way of the Gospel of Jesus, more specifically, the vers ... tions such as helping out the poor, campaigning for nonviolence, and promoting social justice. Each Catholic Worker house has a different mission, and their daily life is suited to the issues surround ...

(9 pages) 1788 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity

Research Application Paper

s (Kelly 1955) were of interest in the research.In "Seeking Authenticity: Women and Learning in the Catholic Worker Movement" (Parrish & Taylor, 2007), the research was qualitative in nature and e ... ch was used to prepare individual accounts of each person's experiences and learning processes as a Catholic Worker. Then thematic analysis across the cases, as described by Lincoln and Guba (1985), w ...

(4 pages) 53 0 0.0 Oct/2009

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Reflections From the Long Loneliness

hip. Yet, she was unsure what she believed and still searching. Her friends never regarded her as a catholic and never knew that she would feel necessity to worship God in an organized Church. When sh ... d in an organized Church. When she was working in Chicago, Dorothy Day lived in an apartment with a catholic household. The household's daughter--Bee, prayed every night and morning when she thought D ...

(3 pages) 2 0 0.0 Oct/2013

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies