The 35th Anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day

This weekend marked 35 years since Dorothy Day left us, but her generous spirit and her legacy of fighting for justice live on.

Posted by Interfaith Worker Justice on Monday, 30 November 2015

The anniversary of the death of Dorothy Day occurred on 29 November.
 Dorothy Day - Wikipedia
What's new toward Dorothy Day's canonization 
The Dorothy Day Guild

The Papal Encyclical : Pope Francis on care for our common home : the encyclical Laudato si'

What kind of world do we want to leave to our children

and future generations?

Dorothy Day, Servant of God - Nov. 8, 1897 – Nov. 29, 1980

Zinn Education Project

Happy birthday Dorothy Day (Nov. 8, 1897 – Nov. 29, 1980), radical journalist and co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Photo: Day picketing civil defense drill in NYC, 1959, read more: http://bit.ly/M5pHIW More photos:http://bit.ly/WFNt5Q

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day

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Rerum Novarum (1891) Princeton Stone Lectures (1898) Populorum Progressio (1967) Centesimus Annus (1991) Caritas in Veritate (2009)
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Do we, too, walk on by?

“We got a lot of weird stares from everyone and you felt helpless while you were sitting there thinking ‘why isn’t anyone helping me? Why isn’t anyone asking about it?’ ” year 11 student Sarah Azzi said. “And it’s really symbolic of what’s happening to refugees because they sit in the detention centres, everyone knows they are there, but no one really does anything about.”

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/catholic-school-kids-protest-against-asylum-seeker-policies-20140815-104iq1.html#ixzz3Ah2dnwTS