A Penny a Copy: Readings from the Catholic Worker [Paperback]

Thomas C. Cornell (Author), Robert Ellsberg (Author), Jim Forest (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1995

Drawing on writings from The Catholic Worker, this book provides a chronicle of this unique movement, its founding and growth, and its courageous grappling with such issues as poverty, homelessness, war, civil disobedience, as well as Works of Mercy, the spirit of hospitality, community, and the editors' efforts to imagine and construct a new society in the shell of the old.

Product Details

• Paperback: 350 pages
• Publisher: Orbis Books; Revised edition (March 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570750122
• ISBN-13: 978-1570750120
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,162,922 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Born in 1951, I was a child of the JFK generation. The Peace Corps, the growing Asian war, the idealism of a few good politicians, protests in the streets greatly influenced my upbringing. All of this was a jumble until I met Dorothy Day and then read A PENNY A COPY. My encounter with Miss Day was very brief, but I do remember the intensity of her eyes. And that intensity flowed into her writings from the Catholic Worker which are contained in this book. The desire to be Christian was burned into every page. Because of this book, my great heros became and still are Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day. In great part I became a Catholic Priest because of A Penny A Copy. Voluntary poverty, Community, and communicating the Good News is what I have sought now throughout my life. Since reading the original, I haven't missed an Issue of the Catholic Worker, which still sells for A Penny a Copy. I am buying an extra copy of the book to give to a friend.