Dorothy Day

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Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day (born November 8, 1897 in Brooklyn , New York , † November 29, 1980 in New York ) was an American Christian socialist and journalist.

Her beatification was proposed three years after her death . In 2000, Pope John Paul II authorized the Archdiocese of New York to initiate the beatification process.

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Dorothy Day was born the daughter of a sports reporter. She graduated from Robert Waller High School at age 16 and won a scholarship from the University of Illinois , where she became a member of the Socialist Party of America . She became a journalist who wrote for left-wing papers. In California , she joined the Communist Party of the United States and was one of the pioneers of the party in that state. She remained a radical supporter of communism until 1927 and later became a representative of Christian anarchism . In March 1927 she had her daughter baptized as a Catholic, and at the end of the year she became a member of the Catholic Church herself. Together with Peter Maurin, she is the founder of the Catholic Worker Movement .

As a staunch suffragette and pacifist , she was arrested several times because she could not reconcile political developments with her conscience and belief. She was last imprisoned in 1973 - at the age of 75 - for participating in an illegal picket line to support César Chavez and the United Farm Workers in California.

Dorothy Day is a book author and founder of St. Joseph's House of Hospitality and The Catholic Worker newspaper in New York. In her biography Gegenwind , Dorothee Sölle devotes a separate chapter to her. Day was the sister of the Eastern European reporter Donald Day , who reported for the Chicago Tribune from Riga between 1921 and 1942 .

Awards

Works

  • From Union Square to Rome . Preservation of Faith Press, 1938.
  • The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of Dorothy Day . Harper & Row, 1952; Harper San Francisco, 1997.
  • Thérèse . Fides, 1960; Templegate, 1979.
  • Dorothy Day: Selected Writings . Orbis Books, 1992.
  • Loaves and Fishes . Harper & Row, 1963; Orbis, 1997.

literature

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Heike Buchter: An uncomfortable saint. New York labor activist Dorothy Day could soon be honored in Rome . In: Die Zeit from December 19, 2012, p. 33.

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SURNAME Day, Dorothy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American social activist
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1980
Place of death New York City