Pax-salon Mailing List: Dorothy Day talk and film (Salon)

[patty (pattypax]

HI,  This Tuesday, after a month's hiatus, we will start up the salons 
with a documentary and discussion on Dorothy Day.
Steve Pastick will show the film.   Hope to see you,
Thanks,
 patty

> Don't Call Me a saint tells the story of the New York writer and 
> social reformer whom the Vatican is considering for canonization but 
> Dorothy is no ordinary saint. (She was once a Communist; journalist; 
> novelist; had an abortion; was a single mom who converted to 
> Catholicism; because of Christ, became a pacifist and became one with 
> the poor.) The film begins at the height of the Depression with 
> Dorothy meeting the French peasant philosopher, Peter Maurin. Together 
> they created the Catholic Worker, a peace and justice movement that 
> persists to this day in hospitality houses and soup kitchens around 
> the world. Dorothy was shot at by the Ku Klux Klan, there were arrests 
> for public protests, and her movement raised the ire of both Church 
> and State. In 1980 Dorothy died in the home she founded for homeless 
> women on the Bowery."
>  
> This is the first in depth documentary about the controversial 
> Catholic lay woman. It is directed by Claudia Larson. Come and see why 
> so many consider her a hero and feel that she is a much needed Saint 
> for the United States.


>
Remember:  Jesus was a community organizer and Pontius Pilot was a 
governor.