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The journals and public writings of Dorothy Day, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, are full of this quote from Dostoevsky’s The Idiot: “The world will be saved by beauty.” We’ll keep an eye on this theme as we explore the founding vision of the Catholic Worker movement–one that included houses of hospitality, roundtable discussions for clarification of thought, and ‘agronomic universities’–and how we try to live them at the Simone Weil House in NE Portland. We’ll also look to Simone Weil, our community’s namesake, and Emma’s training in Byzantine iconography to help us understand how the love of beauty and the love of our neighbor are two faces of the same reality.