Events

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 Sundays 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.

Register using this form to receive the zoom link in the first week of February!

In November, we hosted our first-ever Dorothy Day Guild event in Rome, an academic symposium on Dorothy's legacy. The program featured panels on Dorothy's spirituality and social activism and was sponsored by

• The Department of Moral Theology and Spiritual Theology, Faculty of Theology, Collegium Maximum, Pontifical Gregorian University
• The Dorothy Day Center, Manhattan University
• University of Notre Dame Rome

In partnership with the Guild and the Lay Center. 

We had a wonderful time in Rome and invite you to view full recordings of the panels on our YouTube channel.

Please join us for a webinar on Pope Leo's first apostolic exhortation, Dilexi Te, on love for the poor. Our conversation will be moderated by Kevin Ahern and will feature panelists Dr. Kelly Johnson, a former Catholic Worker and professor of religious studies at the University of Dayton, Dawn McCarty, of the Houston Catholic Worker, Marcellino Monareh, a member of the International Movement of Catholic Students Pax Romana from Indonesia,and Fr. Michael Thomas, a Holy Cross priest and doctoral candidate at Stanford University who has worked extensively with the Catholic Peace Fellowship. 

We are really excited to host this webinar on Pope Leo’s first official papal document and look forward to hearing from our panelists, and from you!