Dr. Cornel West celebrates Day’s 116th birthday with New York’s Catholic Worker community.
Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day: A Necessary Saint for Our Time
When I heard the news that the U S Bishops had heartily endorsed the advancement of the sainthood cause of Dorothy Day at their annual Fall General Assembly in Baltimore my heart leapt for joy that this remarkable 20th century Catholic lay woman was at last being recognized as a true model of holi
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Dearest Forster: The love letters of Dorothy Day
For years after their separation, Dorothy Day continued to hope that her former lover would agree to marry her.
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Dorothy in Love: New letters reveal the frank sexuality of a possible saint.
New letters reveal the frank sexuality of Dorothy Day.
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Canonize Dorothy Day!
Cambridge MA I was glad to read Jim Martin s post on the likely beatification and canonization of Pope John Paul II and Mother Teresa We may as he suggests rejoice at such a prospect and I have indeed admired Mother Teresa for a very long time nbsp nbsp nbsp nbsp But when Jim concludes
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Our Brothers, the Jews: A lost manuscript, a continued call for solidarity
A lost manuscript, a continued call for solidarity
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Rediscovering Dorothy Day
Robert Ellsberg, the editor of The Duty of Delight, the Diaries of Dorothy Day remembers first meeting the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and what he has learned about Day by editing her diaries and her forthcoming collection of letters.
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The Diabolic Plot
It is when the Communists are good that they are most dangerous. And the trouble with many Catholics is that they do not recognize this dangerous goodness but think of Communists as characters from E. Phillip Oppenheim’s international mystery novels. Not long ago a Catholic novel was published
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Five Years with Dorothy Day
I had planned to stay a few months, but was pretty quickly hooked and remained for five years – the last five years of Dorothy’s life, as it turned out.
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Portraying Dorothy Day
Portraying Dorothy Day on a stage would seem a challenge of formidable proportions in and of itself. But to do those portrayals in a series of makeshift settings, church sanctuaries and communal dining rooms—as well as on actual stages—raises the stakes of such a challenge. Sarah Melici