Martha Hennessy, granddaughter of Dorothy Day, said her grandmother “loved the Staten Island Ferry, so what an honor to have one named after her.”
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Meet the Dorothy Day, the latest addition to New York’s Staten Island Ferry fleet
Dorothy Day famously never wanted to be called a saint; how might she have responded to the idea of having a Staten Island ferry named after her?
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R.I.P. Tom Cornell, prophet of peace and lifelong friend of the Catholic Worker
Tom Cornell, who died on Aug. 1 at the age of 88, was truly one of the architects of the American Catholic peace movement.
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An inside look at Dorothy Day’s contested canonization process
As Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization moves from the local phase to Rome, Colleen Dulle shares her insider’s perspective.
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Dorothy Day said we are all called to be saints. So why didn’t she want us to officially name her one?
As Dorothy Day’s cause for canonization moves forward, her writings continue to offer a prophetic Christian witness to a complacent world.
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This band wrote a song in honor of Dorothy Day. Now their album could help make her a saint.
Eric Krewson and the band he headlines, The Chairman Dances, wrote a song that celebrates the friendship of Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin. And that song will shortly be on its way to the Vatican.
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Paul Elie: Daniel Berrigan was a fierce critic of the United States. He was also a great American.
Can we imagine Daniel Berrigan’s portrait, all gussied up, unfurled above the high altar of St. Peter’s? I know I can; but on his centenary it is more than enough to envision this great American’s visage on view in a gallery in the nation’s capital.
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Caroline Gordon, the Catholic novelist we lost and found
Caroline Gordon’s ‘The Malefactors,’ a novel lost to prospective generations of readers, was a classic Catholic tale told by an author of considerable talent.
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Remembering Dorothy Day with David Brooks, Paul Elie, Anne Snyder and Robert Ellsberg
The Dorothy Day Guild and America Media present a commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the death of Servant of God Dorothy Day on Nov. 29, 2020, featuring a conversation about her living legacy with New York Times columnist David Brooks, Comment magazine editor Anne Snyder and The New Yorker contributor Paul Elie. The event […]
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Celebrate the living legacy of Dorothy Day
A Hunger for God. A Striving for Goodness. A Passion for Justice.