Dorothy day biography summary of winston

She was shot at while working for integration, prayed and fasted for peace at the Second Vatican Council, received communion from Pope Paul VI at the 1967 International Congress of the Laity, and addressed the 1976 Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. Day writes that Maurin broadened her horizons and boosted the credibility of their work on two fronts.

In 1916, she left the university and moved to New York City where she worked as a journalist on socialist newspapers, participated in protest movements, and developed friendships with many famous artists and writers. The following day, back in New York, she met Peter Maurin, a French immigrant and former Christian Brother, who had a vision for a society constructed of Gospel values.

Even on the issue of class warfare, Day pledges only to stand with the working classes, not to fight alongside them. However, doing so without passing moral judgment on the beneficiaries of their organization’s largesse is a struggle for her. We scarcely know the word anymore. Therefore, when the Spanish-American War breaks out, she loses favor with a huge number of Catholics stateside who side with the Catholic dictator Franco against the country’s insurgents.

Unfortunately, Day and Batterham grow distant because his views are more in line with secular socialism; eventually, he rejects Day's increasing alliance with the Catholic Church.



As the idea for the Catholic Worker Movement begins to take root, Day meets a kindred spirit in Peter Maurin.

(“The Long Loneliness”)

In fact, to this very day, common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. Unfortunately, subscriptions plummet again in the wake of World War II, again due to the movement’s unequivocal pacifism.

In her later years, Day visited Mother Teresa in India and a number of luminaries associated with Communism abroad.

Dorothy struggled to find her role as a Catholic. (“The Long Loneliness”)

I wanted to die in order to live, to put off the old man and put on Christ. She finds she no longer fits in with secular movements devoted to Communism, Socialism, or Anarchism, in part because those groups attract a huge contingent of atheists.

Together they founded the Catholic Worker newspaper which spawned a movement of houses of hospitality and farming communes that has been replicated throughout the United States and other countries.

At the Catholic Worker, Dorothy Day lived a life faithful to the injunctions of the Gospel. There was plenty of charity but too little justice.

She even visited the Kremlin in the Soviet Union. According to The Chicago Reader, “Through Dorothy, and also Tamar, Hennessy lets you see a way toward a better world, not through anger and coercion, but through love and kindness.”