Dorothy Day, a Witness for Today
EDITORIAL: The founder of the Catholic Worker Movement is a compelling witness of holiness, and hope, for our contemporary times.
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EDITORIAL: The founder of the Catholic Worker Movement is a compelling witness of holiness, and hope, for our contemporary times.
Dorothy Day synthesized seemingly contradictory values with insight and nuance. Perhaps the most perplexing of her beliefs were those on sexuality and romantic love.
In its 90th year, the radical peace movement is reinvigorating itself by going hyper-local.
Without dismissing the importance of other leaders in the history of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, it is fair to say that Dorothy Day remains, at the dawn of the new millennium, the radical conscience of American Catholicism.
After Dorothy Day's death in 1980, her biographer William Miller wrote her obituary for America, noting that "the amazing thing about her life was the improbability of it all."