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Dorothy Day

When Dorothy Day met Ignazio Silone

John Fea   |  June 9, 2023

The Catholic socialist Dorothy Day was a fan of Italian (also Catholic, to an extent) writer Iganzio Silone. She wrote about meeting Silone as part of January 1, 1968 piece in The Catholic Worker: In wrestling with the problem of...

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What William F. Buckley thought about Dorothy Day’s Catholicism

John Fea   |  April 26, 2023

Here is a taste of David Mills’s column at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: In 1960, the leader of American conservatism treated a leading radical, and as it happened fellow Catholic, like an idiot. The first, who died in 2008, is now...

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Episode 103: Spiritual Socialists

John Fea   |  October 9, 2022

Does the American Left have religion problem? What can progressives learn from people like Dorothy Day, Ignazio Silone, Henry Wallace, Staughton Lynd, and Cornel West? Many of these thinkers and activists offered a powerful vision for a moral and just...

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“Without a commons, there is no common good”: What religion can teach the secular Left.

John Fea   |  May 26, 2021

Over at Commonweal, David Albertson and Jason Blakeley argue that if the Left wants to succeed, they must address “the crisis of civic belonging.” Here is a taste: Much of the Left today is focused on proposing policies and dismantling structures....

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Rev. John Hugo and American Catholicism at the AHA/ACHA

John Fea   |  January 2, 2014 Leave a Comment

Father John Hugo What?  You have never heard of Rev. John Hugo?  If you are interested in the priest whom Dorothy Day credited for her “second conversion,” check out the session entitled “Rev. John Hugo and American Catholicism, 1911-1985.  It is session […]

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