On Pilgrimage by Dorothy Day RELIGION BOOKS
Jordan, Patrick
tion by Mark and Louise Zwick,...
...The stink of the world's injustice and 1735 LeRoy Avenue the world's indifference is all around Berkeley, CA 94709 us," she says...
...Master of Divinity Particularly affecting are the pictures • Master of Arts she paints while visiting her daughter's growing family on a small, dirt-poor (GTU Common MA) farm in West Virginia: the warmth they • Master of Theological Studies share, not only on dark February nights • Master of Theology in a frozen holler, but in the languid • Licentiate in Sacred Theology splendor of summer swims with her small grandchildren in a nearby creek...
...The present collection suffers from a n a recent conversation, a ered to $1...
...Brian Johnstone, C.Ss.R...
...and remarking to writer Doon Arbus: And I say, "At a price...
...ceeded in doing just that as the first of She clearly profited from having an edseveral works published by the in-house itor-her The Long Loneliness is a clasCatholic Worker Books in the late 1940s...
...If not regal, Day appears patrician in the wire drags back a bit of the power...
...And one senses it would Jesuit School 510.549.5000 be impossible to look her in the eye and presume to contradict her...
...Wisps of When I come home I'll bring bagels, white hair escape the wreath of her braids...
...And a lot of them go down in the world-to jail...
...ness, but her spiritual depth and pracTrying to get lower is one of the tice...
...I know Fr...
...toll-free 800.824.0122 of Theology But this book is full not only of Day's fax 510.841.8536 at Berkeley passion for justice but her spiritual com- email: admissions(dL'jstb.edu mitment and her own self-doubts and www.istb...
...I'm not against the war in Vietnam...
...a hand-me-down blouse and blazer...
...Eerdmans has just repub- presumed familiarity on the part of her highly regarded historian lished the book as part of its ressource- readers...
...But I have done woefully little...
...The Cardinal Laghi Chair of Biblical joice in poverty, because Christ was I () S E P H I N t'.\1 and Theological Studies poor...
...Financial aid and with the pungent fruits of capitalism: scholarships are available...
...Doctor of Sacred Theology There is a searing description of the • Special Student Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, ghetto, with • Sabbatical Programs its overpowering smell of dead rats...
...for the National Liberation Front win- Ideas go begging in every borough and village in the world, ning...
...Day did, but with clear eyes, an ac- Past Laghi Chair lecturers: tive mind, engaged heart, fervent prayer, • Raymond Brown, S.S...
...edu self-criticism...
...Gerald O'Collins, S.J...
...and photographs of Central Park, Reading glasses dangle at an angle from and stories of how dangerous Manhattan was a cord around her neck...
...Nonetheless, should have added, "and the most challenging, the most provocative...
...We • George Tavard, A.A...
...Day eventually links the plight of those A member school of the Graduate who suffer in America's wastelands Theological Union...
...At fifty she writes, "I have al- announces that ways to struggle against self...
...Within several when I went there alone...
...A committee of be, reveals something essential and time- American Cardinals and Presidents of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops lessly challenging about her...
...In when what I mean to say contrast to many of the other subjects in is that I'll miss you in New York, the portfolio, Day looks directly into the even for three days, even with talking on the phone...
...So I'm not for peace there...
...And in fact the book initially suc- On Pilgrimage is not Day's best book...
...tion by Mark and Louise Zwick, editors of the Houston Catholic Worker, which first GETTING LOWER appeared in Communio (Fall, 1997...
...cannot but learn from her many pilgrimages, and this 1948 collection, cir- This chair was created in honor of Pio Cardinal Laghi, Prefect of the Congregation cumscribed and limited though it may for Catholic Education and former Chancellor of the Josephinum...
...John E. Pollar radical critique, and uncommon joy...
...Walter Kasper • Francis D. Kelly • Dermot A. Lane • William J. Levada • Avery Dulles, S.J...
...As the Zwicks rightly point out, what is most relevant about this volume is not have much more esteem for those who simply Day's prophetic writing and witkeep trying to get lower...
...Johnny Winter, there was a nearly two- Everything's portable-whole planets, whole galaxies...
...Last summer, the New Yorker (August 9,1999) published a sixteen-page Richard Avedon portfolio, "The Sixties...
...reportage but her luminous humanity and spirit...
...By the January 1949 the monthly issue of the Catholic Workissue of the paper, the cost had been low- er...
...sentences she instructs Arbus about civil disobedience and the works of mercy: "You know, a lot of Catholic Workers go Bill Ayres up in the world...
...I am not disillusioned with myself either...
...We are not given help to unI made the remark that ment in Catholic thought series...
...Commonweal 37 March 10, 2000...
...while stooped, remain squared...
...Abbie they mean we can see everything, Hoffman was captured giving the finger, reach out and put our fingers into any hole in the world...
...Her shoulders, I'll miss your touch and the taste of your kiss...
...I'm Spice and disease know no boundaries...
...Eenhnoa ~;, $16, 266 pp...
...Who is this interesting person in the history of columns, articles, and notebooks for "Slim" she mentions who liked to call American Catholicism...
...sic, and her Loaves and Fishes is a more The December 1948 Catholic Worker an- coherent volume-but she seldom had nounced the price for the 175-page pa- one when preparing her columns for Patrick Jordan perback as $1.50...
...and love them to folly...
...How these intersect constitutes her On Pilgrimage themes of Day's 1948 book, On Pilgrim- enduring challenge...
...The derstand first-name-only characters Dorothy Day was the most small volume is based on some of Day's who sound quite intriguing...
...It had been taken at the is the world where you escape nothing," Milwaukee Catholic Worker in the fall of I tell you, "As current travels down the line, 1969...
...I must say I Commonweal 36 March 10, 2000 this 1948 book is full of high-grade ore and some unforgettable passages that demonstrate not only Day's gripping We will inspire you...
...camera with clear eyes and an implaca- Now that everything's close but you're far away, ble strength and serenity...
...I agreed, but 1948, and includes a lengthy introduc- her Fuhrer-ess to her face...
...John Paul II Institute That, of course, would be true of most for Studies on Marriage and Family will hold of us, but not Dorothy Day...
...Dorothy Day age...
...Let us love to live with the poor," she continues, "because they are specially loved by Christ...
...There You Say Distance Means Nothing were Avedon portraits of Bob Dylan, Sly Stone, Gus Grissom, Janis Joplin, Julius Airplanes, automobiles, telephones, television, and telescopes, Lester, and Bernadette Dohrn...
...Even the lowest, most "The New Feminism: A New Humanism" depraved-we must see Christ in them Public Lecture • April 3, 2000 • 7:30 p.m...
...Who else PON'I'IFICA 1. could write so authoritatively, "Let us re- C: C)LL1...
...O promoted its funding...
...page portrait of seventy-one-year-old And I say, "The world where you find everything Dorothy Day...
...PONr1FICAL COLLEGE JOSEPHINUM Patrick Jordan is the managing editor of 7625 NORTH H[GH STREET, COLUMBUS, OHo 43235 (614) 885-5585 • www.pcj.edu Commonweal...
...Francis Martin my talents and ability as well as fail- Professor of Sacred Scripture at the ures...
...Joseph A. Fitzmyer, S...
...The latter were exacting companions that nevertheless worked to save Day from the self-righteousness endemic among inspired radicals, left The Pontifical College Josephinum or right...
...Fol- begging money for shoes, for bicycles, cab fare, for passage lowing an icy triptych of rock musician to the next shore...
Vol. 127 • March 2000 • No. 5
