MERTON'S CORRESPONDENCE WITH:
Stanley, John, 1921-2016
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Record Group: Section A - Correspondence
Dates of materials: 1967
Volume: 2 item(s); 3 pg(s)
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John Stanley took issue with Dorothy Day's support for Distributist philosophy and voluntary works of charity rather than a Communist economic model. A former admirer of Merton, he later thought that Merton's books were "little Birchite booklets wedged into the texts of even pious meditations."
Biography
John Stanley was a former novice at Gethsemani Abbey. He worked for a number of years with Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker Movement. He was a friend of another ex-novice from Gethsemani and fellow Catholic Worker, Robert Steed.
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