How Dorothy Day inspired gay Catholic Workers to respond to AIDS

Plague: Untold Stories of AIDS and the Catholic Church

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In this bonus episode of Plague, Michael O’Loughlin visits a Catholic Worker House in Syracuse, N.Y. to explore how Dorothy Day’s movement responded to the H.I.V. and AIDS crisis. Journey into a part of the Catholic Worker that is rarely discussed: how one of the church’s most welcoming and radically hospitable ministries struggled over the issue of homosexuality, even in the face of AIDS. Hear gay Catholic Workers, journalists and authors, long-term H.I.V. survivors and individuals who worked alongside Dorothy Day speak about the complicated reality they faced.

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Read more about the Friends of Dorothy Catholic Worker House in O’Loughlin’s article, How the Catholic Worker Movement inspired one couple to open their doors to people with AIDS.

This episode coincides with the release of O’Loughlin’s new book, Hidden Mercy: AIDS, Catholics, and Untold Stories of Compassion in the Face of Fear.

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