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FURTHER READING LIST FOR

THE CATHOLIC WORKER AND LIBERATION THEOLOGY CLASS

Almost all CW communities have their own newspaper/newsletter. The 3 current CWs in the UK have their own websites and newsletters. There is lots of writing about Dorothy Day, and the CW movement she founded.

DOROTHY DAY

Selected Writings – edited by Robert Elsberg

The Long Loneliness (autobiography)

Love is the Measure – Jim Forest (biography of Dorothy Day)

All is Grace – Jim Forest (extended version of ‘Love is the Measure’)

Loaves and Fishes – Dorothy’s best book about life in a house of hospitality

A Radical Devotion – Robert Coles

Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother – Kate Hennessy

FOR DOROTHY DAY DEVOTEES: (big books!)

The Duty of Delight – Dorothy’s diaries – edited by Robert Elsberg

All the Way to Heaven – Selected letters – edited by Robert Elsberg

PETER MAURIN: Easy Essays – Peter Maurin

THE CATHOLIC WORKER MOVEMENT

A Penny A Copy - Readings from the Catholic Worker – edited by Robert Elsberg, Tom Cornell & Jim Forest (updated 1995 version is best, paper back )

Voices from the Catholic Worker – Rosalie Riegle

Breaking Bread: The Catholic Worker and the Origin of Catholic Radicalism in America, by Mel Pieh

A Revolution of the Heart – by Jim Coy

The Catholic Worker After Dorothy – Practising The Works of Mercy in a New Generation – Dan McKanan

Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement: Centenary Essays - William J. Thorn, Phillip M. Runkel, Susan Mountin – (there is an Essay about the CW and Liberation Theology)

CATHOLIC WORKER ART

The Works of Mercy – by Frits Eichenberg (who made beautiful woodcuts for the CW paper)

BY OTHER CATHOLIC WORKERS:

AMMON HENNACY – The Book of Ammon

Broken And Shared: Food, Dignity, and the Poor on Los Angeles’ Skid Row, by Jeff Dietrich

THE GOOD SAMARITAN: Stories from the Los Angeles Catholic Worker on Skid Row  - Jeff Dietrich

See this Los Angeles Catholic Worker website for a longer list:



CATHOLIC WORKER WEBSITES: MAIN WEBSITE:

– lists all CW communities and publications, as well as plenty of other information

UK CATHOLIC WORKER COMMUNTIES:

London CW:

CW Farm (Hertfordshire:

Glasgow CW: .uk

OTHER BOOKS IN A SIMILAR ‘CATHOLIC WORKER VEIN:

Books by Fr John Dear, eg ‘Disarming the Heart’

Seeking Justice: The Radical Compassion of Jesus – Keith Hebden – for a British based view

Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel – Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

Books by Daniel Berrigan SJ, and Phillip Berrigan

It Runs in the Family: On Being Raised by Radicals and Growing Into Rebellious Motherhood – Frida Berrigan

BIBLICAL

Binding the Strongman: A Political Reading of the Gospel of Mark – Ched Myers

Binding the Strongman: An Abridged Version – Ched Myers – available from the London CW

Say to This Mountain: (A popular level study version of BTSM) – Ched Myers

Matthew and the Margins – Warren Carter

Who Will Roll Away the Stone: Discipleship Queries for First World Christians – Ched Myers

Jesus Before Christianity – Albert Nolan

Come Out My People – Wes Howard-Brooks

Unveiling Empire: Reading Revelation Then and Now – Wes Howard Brook & Anthony Gwyther

Becoming Children of God – Wes Howard Brook (on John’s Gospel)

JESUS AND NONVIOLENCE

Engaging the Powers – Walter Wink

Jesus and Non-Violence: A Third Way (short look at the Sermon on the Mount)– Walter Wink

The Powers that Be - (popular level version of Engaging the Powers) - Walter Wink

FILMS

“Entertaining Angels” – the story of Dorothy Day and the CW movement: Paulist Pictures

“Fool for Christ” – one woman play about Dorothy Day by Sarah Melici

“Don’t Call Me a Saint” Most of these film sare on Youtube. And more short films.

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