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Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, was famously described as “the most significant, interesting, and influential figure in the history of American Catholicism” on her passing in 1980. Since then her significance has grown, her distinctive integration of faith with the cause of peace, care for the earth, and solidarity with the poor becoming an integral challenge for the mission of the church today.
This book illustrates Day’s signature effort to balance direct service of the poor with protest against the system that causes poverty and injustice, and an appeal to the possibility of a new society, animated by new values. These writings, the last testament of a life of faith, service, activism, point toward a new saintliness for our time.
“Highlights the qualities that truly make [Day] such a unique human being. She embodies the meaning of faith in action, and points us all toward the promise that a better world is possible.”
—Maria Shriver
Dorothy Day (1897-1980), whose cause for canonization is underway, was among four “great Americans” singled out by Pope Francis in his address to Congress. Her books include Loaves and Fishes; From Union Square to Rome; and Peter Maurin: Apostle to the World (with Peter Sicius).
