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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement along with Peter Maurin. A writer and journalist by trade, she and Maurin founded the Catholic Worker newspaper.
Apr 24, 2024 · Dorothy Day (born November 8, 1897, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 29, 1980, New York City) was an American journalist and Roman Catholic reformer, cofounder of the Catholic Worker newspaper, and an important lay leader in its associated activist movement.
Apr 2, 2014 · Dorothy Day was an activist who worked for such social causes as pacifism and women's suffrage through the prism of the Catholic Church.
Apr 6, 2020 · But Dorothy Day was always equal parts “Catholic” and “worker.” Many followers of the Pope found her politics inconvenient and offensive; many leftists thought her faith oppressive and absurd.
Dorothy Day's main achievement is that she taught us the Little Way of love, which it so happens, involves cutting up a great many onions. The path to heaven, it seems, is marked by open doors and the smell of onions.
Dec 13, 2018 · Dorothy Day was a writer and editor who founded the Catholic Worker, a penny newspaper that grew into a voice for the poor during the Great Depression. As the driving force in what became a movement, Day's unwavering advocacy for charity and pacifism made her controversial at times.
Aug 27, 2001 · The dual passion of social justice and intimacy with God was present in her life from early childhood. Early Years and Young Womanhood. Dorothy Day was born in 1897 in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y.,...
Mar 23, 2017 · The Remarkable Story Of Dorothy Day. Day was a champion of the poor and the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. Her granddaughter, writer Kate Hennessy, talks about her grandmother's ...
Dec 8, 2022 · Many will agree that the outstanding exemplar of love and freedom in our time was a woman, Dorothy Day, and that she was the implacable foe of St. John’s “Beast.” Now she is dead.
