On the feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1932, Dorothy Day visited the National Shrine and prayed that “some way would be opened for me to work for the poor and the oppressed.” When she returned from the National Shrine to her apartment in New York, the French peasant-intellectual Peter Maurin was waiting on her […]
DOROTHY DAY
LOVE IS THE MEASURE

From reader Sue Hayes. Sue lives in Northern California and has been married for thirty-three years to a Catholic Worker: “In regard to the canonization of Dorothy Day, it amuses me that both the Catholic Left AND the Right are trying to CLAIM her, when she is NOT claimable… she was incapable of being drawn […]