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De 1933 à sa mort en 1980, l''activiste et journaliste américaine Dorothy Day raconte son quotidien dans le journal The Catholic Worker, dont les extraits sont ici sélectionnés et traduits par Baudouin de Guillebon. Une véritable épopée à travers les quartiers défavorisés des États-Unis où elle se fait la voix de la doctrine sociale de l''Église.Au fil des pages, Dorothy Day conduit ses lecteurs aux quatre coins de l''Amérique, visitant les usines et les champs de coton, racontant le quotidien des sans-abri, décrivant de l''intérieur un pays dont l''atmosphère est proche de celle des romans de Steinbeck.Ce combat extraordinaire contre la misère, Dorothy Day le vit au milieu des plus démunis, dans ces maisons qu''avec Peter Maurin, cofondateur du mouvement des Catholic Worker, ils nomment « maisons d''hospitalité ».On y trouve un réconfort matériel, intellectuel et spirituel, mais aussi une secousse, une décharge : la lecture n''est pas paisible. Dorothy Day invite à un engagement complet - intégral - de la personne humaine, afin de créer cette société « où il serait plus facile d''être bon ». Un appel aux âmes libres, radicales, sans concession avec elles-mêmes et qui portent avec détermination la force incroyable de la charité. Dorothy Day (1897-1980) s''est convertie au catholicisme romain au début des années trente. Elle décide de créer avec le paysan français Peter Maurin, le mouvement des Catholic Worker, afin d''annoncer aux États-Unis que l''Église a une doctrine sociale. Décédée à New York le 29 novembre 1980, le pape François la cite comme l''une des quatre figures américaines majeures du XXe siècle.

Saints and spiritual writers have much to tell us about living the Christian life. The Wisdom series condenses the great spiritual truths penned by holy men and women and presents them in a fresh and exciting way. These books explore writings as ancient as the church Fathers and as modern as Dorothy Day and Blessed Pope John XXIII.

To give hope in uncertain times, this issue of Plough profiles people who have lived courageously. In unsettling times such as these, being told to "take courage" can sound like a grim joke. Yet courage is precisely what we''re in need of today: courage to stand by the truth, and courage to stand by the gospel''s claim that everyone belongs to God, because Jesus has overcome the world. To inspire such courage - and to guard against a failure of nerve or of imagination - this issue of Plough highlights people who have lived courageously. In this issue: * Chinese dissident Yu Jie looks at the challenges facing the church in China. * Cuban pastor Raúl Suárez reveals how encounters with Christians thawed Fidel Castro''s atheism. * Plough pays tribute to NYPD Det. Steven McDonald, who forgave the young shooter who paralyzed him. * Maureen Swinger tells how a young man with severe disabilities became an exceptional teacher. * Evangelical activist D. L. Mayfield finds an unsettling role model in Dorothy Day. * Comic artist Julian Peters illustrates T. S. Eliot''s poem "Little Gidding." Plus: * Insights on courage from Teresa of Avila, George Bernard Shaw, Meister Eckhart, and Mother Teresa * Original poetry by Christopher Zimmerman * Reviews of Martin Scorsese''s Silence, Mark Sundeen''s The Unsettlers, and Craig Greenfield''s Subversive Jesus * Profiles of Thomas Müntzer, Traudl Wallbrecher, and the Sisters of Life * Art and photography by Nikolay Ge, Boris Ivanovich Kopylov, Taisia Afonina, Wayne Forte, Dave Beckerman, Luca Sartoni, Wu Guanzhong, and Sadao Watanabe Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and art to help you put Jesus'' message into practice and find common cause with others.

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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of a school-based violence prevention program, Project SAFE, which was designed to decrease beliefs supporting the use of aggression in response to conflict, as measured by decreases in a Beliefs Supporting Aggression (BSA) scale and an Attitudes Toward Conflict (ATC) scale. This study further examined how changes in beliefs supporting aggression impacted changes in prosocial behavior, and the impact of gender on all of these relationships. Data used for this project included 219 students in 2nd through 6th grades. Students involved in this program came from primarily low-income neighborhoods, and the average rate of free/reduced lunches provided at these schools was 88.9% (67.0% - 99.4). Results suggested that this program was effective in decreasing beliefs supporting aggression, and also that decreased beliefs supporting aggression, measured by the BSA scale, resulted in increased prosocial behavior. However, initial ATC scores predicted overall changes in behavior, with lower ATC scores predicting fewer changes in behavior. These conflicting results are further examined in the discussion. Boys were consistently found to have higher beliefs supporting aggression and lower prosocial behavior than boys at all levels of analysis, but there was no differential impact of the program based on gender.