name: Dorothy Day
birth_date: 1897-11-08 00:00:00
death_date: 1980-11-29 00:00:00
genres: Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Biographies & Memoirs
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about: Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic Christian without in any way abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical in the American Catholic Church. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.A revered figure within the U.S. Catholic community, Day's cause for canonization was recently open by the Catholic Church. Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic Christian without in any way abandoning her social and anarchist activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical in the American Catholic Church. In the 1930s, Day worked closely with fellow activist Peter Maurin to establish the Catholic Worker movement, a nonviolent, pacifist movement that continues to combine direct aid for the poor and homeless with nonviolent direct action on their behalf.A revered figure within the U.S. Catholic community, Day's cause for canonization was recently open by the Catholic Church. ...more