Dorothy Day (1897–1980):
Dorothy Day was a journalist-turned-organizer whose greatest creation was community itself. Born in Brooklyn and raised amid the changes of early-20th-century America. After a conversion to Catholicism in her thirties she co-founded The Catholic Worker in 1933, a penny newspaper that became a rallying cry for mercy, justice, and nonviolent resistance. Alongside it, she helped establish Houses of Hospitality across the country, where the hungry were fed, the homeless sheltered, and dignity treated as non-negotiable. A committed pacifist, Day opposed war, capitalism’s cruelties, and the quiet violence of indifference, enduring arrests, surveillance, and criticism from both Church and State. By the time of her death, she had reshaped the moral imagination of American faith.
For More:
The Long Loneliness — Dorothy Day
Dorothy Day: A Radical Devotion — PBS Documentary
The Catholic Worker Movement (catholicworker.org)
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