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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."
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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1967/04/19 |
TLS to Merton |
I have just finished reading your piece in the current number of THE CATHOLIC WORKER concerning |
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2016/12/no |
other[x] by Steed, Robert |
I first met John Stanley at a religious retreat at the Catholic Worker's Maryfarm outside Newburgh, |
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[copy of the obituary for John Stanley by Robert Steed in The Catholic Worker (December 2016)]
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