American Decades
"Why Do the Members of Christ Tear One Another?"
Newspaper article
By: Dorothy Day
Date: February 1942
Source: Day, Dorothy. "Why Do the Members of Christ Tear One Another?" The Catholic Worker, February 1942. Available online at http://www.catholicworker.org/dorothyday/daytext.cfm?TextID... ; website home page: http://www.catholicworker.org (accessed April 22, 2003).
About the Author: Dorothy Day (1897–1980), born in Brooklyn, New York, was a committed Marxist until her conversion to Roman Catholicism in 1927. As a result, she developed into a famous social reformer and activist. In 1933 she co-founded the Catholic Worker Movement and guided its work in peace advocacy, civil rights, and labor union justice. Even during World War II (1939–1945), when most Americans supported the war effort,...
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1940's Religion Primary Sources
- Cantwell v. Connecticut
- "Christian Faith and the World Crisis"
- "On Anti-Semitism"
- Constitution of the American Council of Christian Churches
- "Why Do the Members of Christ Tear One Another?"
- Peace of Mind
- Everson v. Board of Education of Ewing
- Optatissima Pax
- McCollum v. Board of Education
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- The First Assembly of the World Council of Churches Official Report
- A Guide to Confident Living
- "Beyond Religious Socialism"
- "Greater L.A.'s Greatest Revival Continues!"
- Interviews With Holocaust Survivors
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
