From Union Square to Rome

Day Dorothy, Ellseberg Robert, Pope Francis

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Orbis Books (USA)
20 March 2024

Christian spirituality & religious experience

Dorothy Day FROM UNION SQUARE TO ROME

Preface by Robert Ellsberg

With a New Foreword by

Pope Francis

“‘Praise God’ is the title of this letter. For when human beings claim to take God’s place, they become their own worst enemies.”

In Laudato Si’, his historic encyclical of 2015, Pope Francis firmly established ecological concerns as central to the agenda of Catholic Social Teaching. Along with a spiritual framework on care for creation, he outlined such issues as climate change, biodiversity, and the peril facing our oceans, and offered a comprehensive guide to integral ecology.

Now, comes a shorter but even more urgent call: Laudate Deum, which focuses specifically on the climate crisis. As Erin Lothes Biviano writes in her introduction, Pope Francis here writes as a prophet, priest, poet, and most of all “a pastor, deeply concerned for people throughout the world, and above all for the poor.” Disappointed that not enough has been done in the intervening years, Francis addresses the irreversible effects of increasing global temperatures, the decrease in ice sheets, and other signs of the times. He critiques the “technocratic paradigm,” the ongoing addiction to a fossil-fuel economy, and the “weaknesses of international politics,” while leveling particular criticism at those who sow resistance and confusion.

With selections in this edition from Laudato Si’ that focus on pastoral, theological, and spiritual themes, Laudate Deum is a call to face the preeminent crisis of our times and to draw on all our spiritual wisdom, scientific knowledge, and political will to meet the challenge.

By: Day Dorothy
Preface by: Ellseberg Robert
Foreword by: Pope Francis
Imprint: Orbis Books (USA)
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 137mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9781626985599
ISBN 10: 1626985596
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 20 March 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Book
Publisher's Status: Active

Contents Foreword by Pope Francis ix Preface by Robert Ellsberg xv Introduction xix Chapter One WHY 1 Chapter Two CHILDHOOD 17 Chapter Three EARLY YEARS 28 Chapter Four COLLEGE 39 Chapter Five RAYNA PROHME 53 Chapter Six NEW YORK 63 Chapter Seven REPORTING 73 Chapter Eight THE RIGOROUS LIFE 94 Chapter Nine CHICAGO 101 Chapter Ten PEACE 116 Chapter Eleven NEW LIFE 132 Chapter Twelve WHEAT AND COCKLE 148 Chapter Thirteen YOUR THREE OBJECTIONS 158

Dorothy Day (1897-1980), founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was singled out by Pope Francis in his address to Congress, as one of four “great Americans” who offer us a new way of seeing and interpreting reality. Her cause for canonization is in process. Her Orbis titles include Dorothy Day: Selected Writings, Loaves and Fishes, From Union Square to Rome, (with Peter Sicius) Peter Maurin: Apostle to the World; and On Pilgrimage: The Sixties.