Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 8, 1897.
Dorothy Day's life and legacy is a radical movement, faithful to the Gospel and the Church, immersed in the social issues of the day, with the aim of transforming both individuals and society. Dorothy's spirit fosters nonviolence, personal responsibility to the poorest ones among us, and fidelity to community and to God.
As an American born into a Protestant family that valued education and literacy, she was a pragmatist and a woman of action.
Dorothy's vision continues in the Catholic Worker Movement.Approximately 120 communities serve in the United States, with new houses opening every year. The rule she lived by and promoted is contained in the Gospels, in the Sermon on the Mount and in Matthew 25.
Her vision, a model of liberation, lives on in The catholic Worker newspaper that has been continually published since May 1, 1933. Dorothy was a journalist all her adult life. She lived through and commented on the central events of the 20th century: wars, economic depression, class struggle, nuclear threat. She wrote to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
"If I have achieved anything in my life, it is because I have not been embarrassed to talk about God," she once remarked. The Claretians have launched an effort to have her canonized.
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