Dorothy Day, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Dorothy Day

American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1897

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 29-Nov-1980

Profession: writer, editor, journalist, social activist, trade unionist, peace activist, autobiographer, suffragist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Dorothy Day

  • Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist, and Catholic convert.
  • Day initially lived a bohemian lifestyle before gaining public attention as a social activist after her conversion.
  • She was a political radical, perhaps the best known radical in American Catholic Church history.Day's conversion is described in her autobiography, The Long Loneliness.
  • Day was also an active journalist, and described her social activism in her writings.
  • In 1917 she was imprisoned as a member of suffragist Alice Paul's nonviolent Silent Sentinels.
  • In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker Movement, a pacifist movement that combines direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.
  • She practiced civil disobedience, which led to additional arrests in 1955, 1957, and in 1973 at the age of seventy-five.
  • As part of the Catholic Worker Movement, Day co-founded the Catholic Worker newspaper in 1933, and served as its editor from 1933 until her death in 1980.
  • In this newspaper, Day advocated the Catholic economic theory of distributism, which she considered a third way between capitalism and socialism.
  • Pope Benedict XVI used her conversion story as an example of how to "journey towards faith...
  • in a secularized environment." In an address before the United States Congress, Pope Francis included her in a list of four exemplary Americans who "buil[t] a better future".
  • The Church has opened the cause for Day's possible canonization, which was accepted by the Holy See for investigation.
  • For that reason, the Church refers to her with the title of Servant of God.

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