Dorothy Day was "a great witness to faith, hope and charity in the 20th century," a woman who loved the Catholic Church despite the flaws of its members and who knew that serving God meant serving the ...
NEW YORK (RNS) — Jane Sammon was terrified the first time she met Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker founder now being considered for sainthood by Rome. “ I was at the front mopping the floor, and I ...
“Don’t call me a saint…,” Dorothy Day once quipped, and some are happy to oblige. They wonder why Dorothy’s cause for canonization is moving forward. After all, how can a spitfire, twentieth-century ...
Dorothy Day at morning Mass in 1973. (Photo by Bob Fitch/Courtesy of the Bob Fitch Photography Archive at Stanford University) Editor’s note: Dorothy Day was born on this date, Nov. 8, in 1897. This ...
For the longest time, perhaps over a decade, I’ve been encouraging my good friend Robert Ellsberg, the publisher of Orbis Books, to write a book about the time he spent with Dorothy Day when he was a ...