Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Biography (Reading List)

Dorothy Day. The Long Loneliness.
Dorothy Day was a devout Catholic and a leader in pacifist and labor rights issues. Her book traces her personal journey and the founding of the Catholic Worker movement.

Thomas Merton. Seven Story Mountain.
Worldwide best seller when it was released in the 1950s. Thomas Merton’s road to joining one of the most rigorous monastic orders.

Fr. Daniel Mode. The Grunt Padre.
Account of the life of Fr. Vincent Capodanno, a Navy chaplain who died in
Vietnam while he was ministering to his men on the battlefield

Gerard B. Wegemer, Thomas More: A Portrait of Courage.
Sir Thomas More, an important thinker in his own right, refused to go along with Henry VIII in severing
England from Rome. More was executed for his decision.

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