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For nine days now we have gathered in prayer and thanks for the life and witness of Dorothy Day, Servant of God. Last year, on the feast of the Immaculate Conception, the anniversary of her famous prayer for a vocation, … Continue reading →

For Dorothy Day, the Catholic Worker community afforded a context in which the daily realities of life were fully experienced and faith, hope, and love were tested. Community is a reminder of what we often forget, that love is not … Continue reading →

Dorothy Day always insisted that it was the joy of her daughter’s birth that brought her to God: “I was happy but my very happiness made me know that there was a greater happiness to be obtained from life than … Continue reading →

On her reception of the Laetare Medal at the University of Notre Dame in May 1972, University President Father Theodore Hesburgh stated that Dorothy Day was the single most influential Catholic of the last fifty years. “She’s represented the Church … Continue reading →

The witness of Dorothy Day was in truth a light shining in the darkness to counteract the unthinking nationalism and militarism to which the U.S. Church all too often acquiesced. Dorothy’s nonviolent and pacifist positions were gospel-based and also drew … Continue reading →

Dorothy Day was an outspoken critic of our social order, what she once referred to as our “dirty, rotten system” that denies the most vulnerable the right to a living wage, safety and security. Throughout her long life, she embraced … Continue reading →

The Catholic Worker movement led by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin sought to invigorate and give new life to the radical vision of Christianity. At the heart of that vision is the practice of the corporal and spiritual works of … Continue reading →

Over and over again in the history of the Church, the saints have emphasized poverty. They ask us to meet the poor face-to-face, to share in their poverty, to lead a life of simplicity, to divest from our attachments that … Continue reading →

Peter Maurin was the answer to Dorothy Day’s “special prayer,” which she offered up 90 years ago on December 8, 1932, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. As a worker accustomed to manual labor and … Continue reading →

“Every Catholic faced with a great need starts a novena.” –Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness Today, we pray in gratitude for Dorothy’s wholehearted response to living out the demands of the Gospel. Although she grew up in a nominally religious … Continue reading →