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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.
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.
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.
When I look at the world for examples of how to act, I am drawn to people who are deeply committed to the well-being of other people. Many people, myself included, have high ideals about equality and protection of the poor and vulnerable, but what set Dorothy Day apart was her commitment to these ideals, even though actually acting on her ideals met asking nothing for herself and living a life of amazing simplicity that often ran counter to her own prosperity and pleasure.
In my short life so far, I have started to pursue work that I hope will help reduce the damage that climate change is causing to humans across the globe. The climate crisis was not something people were thinking about for most of Dorothy Day's life, but the way she lived and encouraged others to live is the right answer for a sustainable human life on earth. Her work was not flashy, but it put ordinary people and their basic needs first and that is something we need to keep doing today.
-Anonymous
I had always wanted to be a writer. A couple of years ago I chanced upon the note in the DD Guild newsletter looking for volunteer transcribers. Did the work for a year and a half, feeling so blessed to make use of long unused fact checking and textual editing skills from decades ago. Felt SO blessed to do her any little favor. Transcribing her words wasn’t the same as writing a book about her, but it got me through one of the toughest years of my life, and I think it was her special answer to my prayer: here, do the work you CAN do.
-Harrington Park, NJ
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.
Thursday, November 14th, 2024
7:00-8:30 PM Eastern
Zoom!
Celebrate Black Catholic History Month and mark the anniversaries of Dorothy's birth and death this November!
Please join us for a conversation on how Dorothy Day and the six Black American Catholics whose causes for canonization are open can offer us a vision of politically-engaged holiness in our present time. Our panelists, Dr.Kim Harris, Deacon Mel Tardy, Joanne Kennedy, and Dr. Andrew Prevot, are each living out this vision in their scholarship, journalism, teaching, and ministry. This panel will be moderated by Dorothy Day Guild co-chair Dr. Kevin Ahern.
Saturday, March 29th, 2025
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Manhattan University
4513 Manhattan College Pkwy
Bronx, NY 10471
and online.
In his announcement of the upcoming 2025 Jubilee Year of Hope, Pope Francis called the faithful to read the signs of the times and to search amongst them for signs of hope. The Holy Father tells us that the first of these must be “the desire for peace in our world, which once more finds itself immersed in the tragedy of war…May the Jubilee remind us that those who are peacemakers will be called ‘children of God’ (Mt 5:9). The need for peace challenges us all, and demands that concrete steps be taken.” Likewise, Pope Francis asks the wider Christian community to offer real signs of hope to the poor at home and across the world whose material needs go unmet. In the life and legacy of Dorothy Day, we read these signs.
We are currently accepting proposals of between 300-500 words to discuss the significance of Day’s legacy in the twenty-first century for a one-day symposium sponsored by the Dorothy Day Guild and the Dorothy Day Center for the Study and Promotion of Social Catholicism on Saturday, March 29th, 2025 on the campus of Manhattan University in the Bronx, NY. This conference is open to scholars at every level and peace practitioners whose life and work have been influenced by Dorothy Day’s legacy. We particularly invite students and members of the Catholic Worker movement to submit proposals for papers, panels, and presentations of creative work. Final presentations and papers should be limited to 20 minutes.
To encourage participation by international participants and to reduce our shared carbon footprint, the symposium will be offered in a hybrid format. Participants may choose to present in-person or over video conferencing.
Please stay tuned for further information on how to register for this event! We look forward to reading your proposals and hope to see many of you in person and online in March!
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A Woman of Conscience, a Saint for Our Time
The Dorothy Day Guild supports and advances the cause for canonization of Dorothy Day, initiated by the Archdiocese of New York as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, and promotes, for the benefit of all people interested in social justice, awareness of Dorothy Day, her writings, the Catholic Worker Movement she co-founded, and her life and witness to the Gospel.
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