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Dorothy Day: laywoman, peace activist, Catholic convert, single mother, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement– and perhaps soon, a saint!

The Dorothy Day Guild is an association of the faithful working together to support and advance the cause of canonization for Dorothy Day. Since 2005, the Guild has assisted the official sainthood cause for Dorothy in the Roman Catholic Church and has worked to promote her legacy of Gospel nonviolence and voluntary poverty.

About the Dorothy Day Guild

We are an association of the faithful who work to forward the canonization cause of Dorothy Day, a laywoman, Catholic convert, peace activist, single mother, and co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Founded in 2005, the Guild supports the official sainthood process for Dorothy and promotes her legacy of voluntary poverty and nonviolence and her unique witness to the Gospel.

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The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?

- DOROTHY DAY

Graces, Favors, and Miracles

One of the Guild’s responsibilities is to document the help granted through Dorothy Day’s intercession. Nothing should be viewed as too insignificant to report.

With gratitude, we welcome your sharing.

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Latest News

By Casey Mullaney 02 Feb, 2024
Dear friends, Greetings, and happy Feast of the Presentation! Today’s Gospel reading brings the Holy Family into the embrace of Anna and Simeon, faithful prophets who trusted that God would send them a redeemer, and who recognize the child Jesus in His mother’s arms as their long-awaited Savior. As we continue to await news of a miracle which will further Dorothy’s canonization cause, may we remain as prayerful and vigilant as Anna and Simeon, and as ready to welcome Christ in our neighbors, especially the poor.
By Casey Mullaney 02 Jan, 2024
Dear friends, Merry Christmas from all of us at the Dorothy Day Guild! We hope that all of you were able to enjoy some rest and refreshment as Advent concluded and we began the celebration of the Christmas season. Every year, Kelly Latimore’s beautiful image of Dorothy welcoming the Holy Family to Maryhouse captures for us the spirit of hospitality, vulnerability, and peace that characterizes this time of year. Many thanks to the artists and musicians who have brought such beauty and variety to our homes and our liturgies over the past few weeks!
By Casey Mullaney 08 Dec, 2023
Dear friends, Hello, and Advent greetings from the Dorothy Day Guild! You might know that we received a really important canonization update last month: the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints in Rome appointed Monsignor Maurizio Tagliaferri as the relator for Dorothy’s cause! Our Guild steering committee, George Horton, Deirdre Cornell, and Dr. Kevin Ahern, met with our postulator, Dr. Waldery Hilgeman, at the beginning of November, when he shared this news. This was a great gift for Dorothy’s birthday on November 8th and her anniversary of death on November 29th! All of us here at the Guild are thrilled with this development, and we wanted to take this opportunity to explain what happens at this stage of the canonization process and outline the next steps towards sainthood for our members.
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Why Join the Dorothy Day Guild?

If you believe in the significance of Dorothy Day's life, joining the Dorothy Day Guild is a direct way to show that you support the cause for her canonization. In turn, the steady growth of Guild membership points to the vitality of grassroots support for the cause and allows us to continue offering free programming and resources to promote Dorothy’s legacy of hospitality, voluntary poverty, and Gospel nonviolence.

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Upcoming Events

Lenten Book Club: The Long Loneliness

March 3, 2024

March 10, 2024

March 17, 2024,

March 24, 2024 

8:00 PM EST/7:00 PM CST 

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    Historian and longtime friend of the Guild, Anne Klejment, has graciously agreed to host a Lenten book club where we will read Dorothy’s spiritual autobiography, The Long Loneliness, together over four sessions. 


    Our spring reading group will meet Sunday evenings at 8pm Eastern/7pm Central, beginning on March 3rd, and continuing March 10th, March 17th, and finishing on Palm Sunday, March 24th. Sign up using this form to receive the reading schedule and additional materials.  Anne is the author of a number of academic studies on the Catholic Worker movement and on Dorothy’s influence on American Catholicism, and we’re so excited for her to bring her expertise to this classic text! 

Radical Action: Tracing Dorothy Day

September 18, 2023 —

March 24, 2024

10:00 AM - 

6:00 PM

4513 Manhattan College Pkwy 

Bronx, NY 10471

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    Manhattan College’s O’Malley Library Gallery will host Kristi Pfister’s “Radical Action: Tracing Dorothy Day” from September 18th through December 16th. “Radical Action”  is an installation of suspended fabric columns, marble mosaics, and mixed media work that explores the duality of Day's radical actions and her spiritual self. The mosaic's concrete strength contrasts with translucent columns on which Pfister has traced patterned fragments of drawings. A large-scale painted scroll presents Day as a modern-day caryatid leading a procession of activism.


    You can come experience the exhibit at the O’Malley library gallery (4513 Manhattan College Parkway, Bronx, NY) daily this fall between 10 am and 6 pm. Please be especially sure to join us for a reception and artist talk on Thursday October 26th from 5-7pm. Pfister will deliver some brief remarks right at five. We hope to see you there!


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