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Each week the Pacifica Radio Archives chooses a program "From the Vault" of broadcasts in a half-hour program.
Today on From the Vault we feature the voice of Dorothy Day from a 1960 KPFA interview and we will hear from Blas Bonpane, director of the office of the America s who knew her
Dorothy Day 1897 ” 1980 was an activist who worked for such social causes as pacifism and women’s suffrage through the prism of the Catholic Church.
Intrigued by the Catholic faith for years, Dorothy Day converted in 1927. In 1933, she co-founded The Catholic Worker, a newspaper promoting Catholic teachings that became very successful and spawned the Catholic Worker Movement, which tackled issues of social justice guided by its religious principles. Day also helped establish special homes to help those in need.
For more about Dorothy Day s life, visit catholicworker.org
Today, September 24, 2015, Pope Francis called her out as one of “four great Americans,” along with Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thomas Merton.
To contextualize our recording and the address before congress by Pope Francis Sept 24 20-15, I called to talk to Blase Bonpane the director of the Office of the Americas in Los Angeles, California, which he co-founded with his wife Theresa in 1983. He works on human rights issues, and identification of illegal and immoral aspects of United States government policy.
Bonpane served as a Maryknoll priest in Guatemala and was assigned by the Cardinal of Central America as National Advisor to Centro Capacitacion Social, a center for university and high school students working in the field with indigenous people on matters of health, literacy and labor organization. He was expelled from that country in 1967 in the midst of a revolution. Today in addition to his work at the Office of the America s he s veteran host of Sunday s at 10 am on KPKF Los Angeles.
That was Blas Bonpane, director of the office of the Americas and host of the radio show, World Focus heard on Pacifica radio. For more information about Blas visit officeoftheamericas.org
PACIFISM AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH / Dorothy Day| interviewed by Eugene Boyle. – Founder of the Catholic Workers Movement discusses that organization’s fight for world peace since the 1930’s. – BROADCAST: KPFA, 3 May 1960
