What is the main conflict in The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day by Dorothy Day?

The Long Loneliness is the autobiography of Dorothy Day (1891-1980) who was a devout convert to Catholicism, anarchist, distributivist, social activist and American journalist. She is famous not only for her writing and social activism but for founding the newspaper The Catholic Worker with her friend Peter Maurin, which advocated nonviolence, simple living, and aid for the poor. The "long loneliness" is a state of loneliness Day often experienced as a child and young adult, which only her conversion to Roman Catholicism and experience in communities of the poor could cure. She also argues throughout the book that the "long loneliness" is universal in human experience and can only be cured by community life.