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- Aside from Day’s references to the concept in print, one Worker
confirms that “Dorothy was always talking about being fools for
Christ” in Rosalie G. Riegle, Dorothy: Portraits by Those Who Knew
Her (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2006), 62. - Day, for example, liked to point out that by worldly standards,
Christ was a fool and a failure. She drew from this fact a lesson for
the movement: “What we do is so little we may seem to be constantly
failing. But so did He fail. He met with apparent failure on the Cross.
But unless the seed fall into the earth and die, there is no harvest.”
Day is quoted in McKanan, The Catholic Worker after Dorothy, 22. - See Sergey A. Ivanov, Holy Fools in Byzantium and Beyond
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). - Zwick and Zwick, The Catholic Worker Movement, 9.
- Piehl, Breaking Bread, 97.
- Jacques Maritain, The Person and the Common Good (New
York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1947), 44. - Fred Boehrer, “Diversity, Plurality, and Ambiguity: Anarchism in
the Catholic Worker Movement,” in William Thorn, Phillip Runkel,
and Susan Mountin, eds., Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker
Movement: Centenary Essays (Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University
Press, 2001), 105. - John Cort, “My Life at The Catholic Worker” Commonweal 107
(1980): 367. - Michael Harrington quoted in Riegle, Dorothy, 61.
- June O’Connor, The Moral Vision of Dorothy Day: A Feminist
Perspective (New York: The Crossroad Publishing Company,
1991), 80. - Nancy L. Roberts, Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker (Albany,
NY: State University of New York Press, 1984), 99. - Dorothy Day, “On Pilgrimage – December 1972,” The
Catholic Worker, December 1972, 2, 8; available from http://www.
catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID=526; Internet;
accessed 12 August 2014.