'Revolution of the Heart' screening comes to Hendricken tonight

Posted 1/23/20

Bishop Hendricken High School will play host to a special screening of a new documentary tonight at 7 p.m. at the Dr. Daniel S. Harrop Theater. From Martin Doblmeier and Journey Films, "e;Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story"e; profiles one of the

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'Revolution of the Heart' screening comes to Hendricken tonight

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Bishop Hendricken High School will play host to a special screening of a new documentary tonight at 7 p.m. at the Dr. Daniel S. Harrop Theater.

From Martin Doblmeier and Journey Films, “Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story” profiles one of the most extraordinary and courageous women in American history — one who is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church, but who famously said, “Don’t call me a saint, I don’t want to be dismissed that easily.” Realist and radical, Day was both a typical grandmother and a self-described anarchist who once made the FBI’s watch list as a “dangerous American.” “Revolution of the Heart” is the story of one of the greatest champions of the poor America has ever known. It will begin airing on public television stations in March 2020, for Women’s History Month, and available on DVD on December 1, 2019. Special screening events will take place nationwide from January through March.

As a journalist, Dorothy Day covered workers’ rights and child labor. As an activist, she protested war and nuclear arms. Attracted to Communism as a young woman, she believed it was a way to improve people’s lives. She marched in support of women’s suffrage and was jailed and beaten.

After the birth of her daughter, she converted to Catholicism, and found Christianity to be an even more radical path. “If you take the Lord’s words, you’ll find they are pretty rigorous,” Day says in archival footage included in the film. “The Sermon on the Mount may be read with great enjoyment, but when it comes to practicing it, is really is an examination of conscience to see

how far we go.”

Day was co-founder, along with Peter Maurin, of the Catholic Worker Movement that began as a newspaper to expose rampant injustices during the Great Depression. It soon expanded to become a network of houses of hospitality to welcome the poor and destitute. Now nearly a century after they began, the number of Catholic Worker houses continues to grow and the newspaper is still speaking truth to power. Over the years, Dorothy Day developed her understanding of how to follow the biblical challenge to be “peacemakers” by resisting all forms of military intervention. She protested America’s involvement in World War II and was severely criticized. Arrested multiple times for protesting America’s nuclear buildup, she also led nationwide resistance against the war in Vietnam.

“Revolution of the Heart” includes rare archival photographs and film footage plus interviews with Dorothy Day’s granddaughters, writer Kate Hennessey and activist Martha Hennessey, actor/activist Martin Sheen, public theologian Cornel West, bestselling author Joan Chittister, Jim Wallis of Sojourners and many others. Excerpts from Day’s autobiography, The Long Loneliness, are read in the film by Susan Sarandon.

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  • thepilgrim

    Dorothy Day, another Marxist celebrated by the Catholic Church. This evil women even celebrated the Bolshevik Revolution which killed 60 million Russian gentiles.

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