Dorothy Day, died Nov 29, 1980

Credit to the Daily Episcopalian (blog.edow.org). For some reason I didn't have Dorothy Day up on my calendar of saints, but she died 26 years ago, and she was an activist for women's and worker's rights. Interestingly, she wrote in support of free love and birth control in 1910, and had an abortion in the 20s, but she opposed the sexual revolution of the 60s. And as I said in a previous post, liberal Christians need a concrete sense of sexual ethics.

In any case, through it all, Day maintained a commitment to the poor and to nonviolence. The Catholic Worker Movement has over 185 houses providing social services; they are independent of the Roman Catholic Church. Their beliefs are listed here: http://www.catholicworker.org/aimsandmeanstext.cfm?Number=5

Dorothy Day didn't want to be called a saint. She felt it would trivialize her. So, don't call her a saint; instead, go and do likewise.


Link to Robert Lentz's icon on Trinity Stores - that's the image
http://www.trinitystores.com/main.php4?detail=33&artist=1

The Catholic Worker Movement homepage:
http://www.catholicworker.org/

The Catholic Worker, a mirror site for some articles from TCWM:
http://www.catholicworker.com/

Her Wikipedia page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Day