Events

For our annual Easter-season webinar, we've chosen to highlight some of the past decade's most notable books on Dorothy. Please join us for a conversation with Kate Hennessy, author of Dorothy Day: The World Will Be Saved by Beauty: An Intimate Portrait of My Grandmother, D.L. Mayfield, author of Unruly Saint: Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times, and Blythe Randolph and John Loughery, co-authors of Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century. 

Our roundtable discussion will be moderated by our Dorothy Day Guild chair, Dr. Kevin Ahern and will include plenty of time for a Q&A with these excellent writers.

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To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8th, we hosted a special online event! This year's theme for IWD is social justice, and we chose to highlight an intergenerational group of Catholic women whose activism has been inspired by Dorothy's legacy of Gospel nonviolence, voluntary poverty, and hospitality.

Our members joined Clare Grady, Michelle Sherman, Brenna Cussen Anglada, and Sister Helen Prejean for an evening of conversation on how faith and exemplars like Dorothy have shaped their work on behalf of the poor, the incarcerated, youth, Indigenous communities, and victims of war and violence in the United States and abroad. This conversation wasmoderated by our 2025 Dorothy Day Guild Graduate Research Fellow, Magdalena Muñoz Pizzulic.

Thank you for your interest in our third annual Lenten book club! For 2026, historian and long-time friend of the Dorothy Day Guild, Dr. Anne Klejment, will host our online reading group over the course of five Tuesdays in Lent. During our time together, we will read Dorothy's memoir of the first thirty years of the Catholic Worker movement, Loaves and Fishes. 

Originally published in 1963, Loaves and Fishes is an excellent companion piece to Dorothy's spiritual autobiography, The Long Loneliness. In this later book, Dorothy brings her journalistic eye for detail and character sketches to the first three decades of the vibrant Catholic Worker family, focusing on the varied community members who brought their gifts and talents to the growing movement, and on the persistence of poverty in affluent post-war America.

If you do not yet have your own copy of Loaves and Fishes, you can purchase a copy through Orbis Books. We also encourage book club members to request a copy through their local public library. We look forward to a series of wonderful conversations as we journey together with Christ, and with Dorothy, in the Lenten season.

Meeting schedule: Tuesday evenings, 8:00-9:15 PM Eastern/7:00-8:15 PM Central

Each meeting will last one hour and fifteen minutes.

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