Events

Manhattan College’s O’Malley Library Gallery will host Kristi Pfister’s “Radical Action: Tracing Dorothy Day” from September 18th through December 16th. “Radical Action”  is an installation of suspended fabric columns, marble mosaics, and mixed media work that explores the duality of Day's radical actions and her spiritual self. The mosaic's concrete strength contrasts with translucent columns on which Pfister has traced patterned fragments of drawings. A large-scale painted scroll presents Day as a modern-day caryatid leading a procession of activism.

You can come experience the exhibit at the O’Malley library gallery (4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx, NY) daily this fall between 10 am and 6 pm. Please be especially sure to join us for a reception and artist talk on Thursday October 26th from 5-7pm. Pfister will deliver some brief remarks right at five. We hope to see you there!

Historian and longtime friend of the Guild, Dr. Anne Klejment, led a Lenten book club where we read Dorothy’s spiritual autobiography, The Long Loneliness, together over four sessions. 

Dr. Klejment is a professor emerita at St. Thomas University and is the author of a number of academic studies on the Catholic Worker movement and on Dorothy’s influence on American Catholicism. 

Stay tuned for our next online book study! 

This roundtable featured Cardinal Timothy Dolan and four Manhattan College alumni and current students, all of whom have devoted their professional and personal lives to solidarity with and advocacy on behalf of the poorest and most marginalized members of their communities. After the discussion, guests enjoyed exploring Dorothy's life and legacy and viewing important artifacts from her life in the newly-opened Dorothy Day Center. The Dorothy Day Center and exhibit is open during business hours and by appointment-- come visit us!

Join us in a Celebration of  Eucharist for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons on the 43rd anniversary of the Death of Servant of God, Dorothy Day with Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, author of Living in the Light of Christ's Peace: A Conversation Toward Nuclear Disarmament

We look forward to welcoming Lincoln Rice, PhD, to Manhattan College for the annual Dorothy Day lecture, co-sponsored by the Dorothy Day Guild and the Dorothy Day Center for the Study and Promotion of Social Catholicism. This year’s lecture will take place on Thursday, November 2nd at 6:30 pm in the Alumni Room at Manhattan College’s O’Malley library.

Lincoln received his doctorate in moral theology from Marquette University in 2013 and has been a member of Milwaukee's Casa Maria Catholic Worker community since 1998. He is the author of Healing the Divide: A Catholic Racial Justice Framework Inspired by Dr. Arthur Falls, and editor of The Forgotten Radical Peter Maurin: Easy Essays From The Catholic Worker. Lincoln will speak to us this year on Peter Maurin’s philosophy, his significance for the Catholic Worker movement, and what we can learn from Peter today. 

To mark the close of Dorothy’s 125th year, we hosted our first Manhattan walking pilgrimage of significant sites in Dorothy’s life and the early years of the Catholic Worker movement on Saturday, October 21st. This pilgrimage takes us to the places where Dorothy prayed, protested, and offered the works of mercy for nearly 50 years. Beginning in Union Square, the pilgrimage route takes between two and three hours to walk and concludes at Maryhouse, Dorothy Day’s final home. You can view the map here.

If you would like to make this pilgrimage yourself, please visit our walking tour page by clicking the button "TOUR PAGE"