Day, as most know, was a bohemian, peace activist, Communist, and journalist who converted to Catholicism in 1927, similar to my own re-conversion after I tried out the lifestyles exemplified by the artists and intellectuals of my own day fifty years later. The dialectic is a fruitful one, yielding insight into both Day's Her “first conversion” had resulted from the birth of her daughter Tamar. Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, knew this sense of isolation better than most. A convert to Catholicism, she served as editor of the Catholic Worker newspaper for 47 years until her death at 83. Throughout her adult life as a Catholic, Day faced a variety of crises. Day’s model for integrating service, piety, and … When I was in my forties, I became avidly interested in Dorothy Day, and I read everything I could about her life. https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2001/08/27/introduction-dorothy-day Forty years after her death on Nov. 29, 1980, does the spirituality of Servant of God Dorothy Day offer COVID-era Christians assistance through a lengthy rough patch? 1926 Naissance de sa fille, Tamar. Puis, à la lecture de l’anarchiste russe Kropotkine et d’auteurs comme Hugo, Dickens et London, son cœur est transpercé par la question sociale. Unfortunately, Tamar herself came to see the Hugo retreat—particularly what she considered its negative effect on her mother—in a decidedly critical light (see Kate Hennessy, Dorothy Day: … Day's story, conversely, offers an opportunity to test selected features of Conn's theory, specifically the affective, cognitive, moral, and religious categories of analysis. Day and the Poor. Richard Sahn In 1933 Dorothy Day, a progressive journalist and Catholic convert, and Peter Maurin, a French peasant and philosopher, founded an anarchist-pacifist movement and newspaper they called the “Catholic Worker.” The paper was meant to be the Christian answer to the Communist Party paper, “The Daily Worker.” Not affiliated with the Catholic Church,… Dorothy Day, saint and troublemaker. Day co-founded the Catholic Worker movement in New York City in the 1930s following her conversion to Catholicism. Although he never met Dorothy Day, Horton said he remains influenced by her as well as those with whom she worked in the Catholic Worker movement. Before her conversion, one of Dorothy Day’s favorite bar mates was the famous playwright Eugene O’Neill. Mostly, saints lived in the distant past, that is before we were born, and have been presented to us with all blemishes removed. Absolutely! The record of who Dorothy Day was, what she was like, and what she did is too complete and accessible for her to be hidden in wedding-cake icing. Born in Brooklyn, she later returned to New York City to live and work. It appears from Likoudis’ article that his sudden “conversion” was effected under the influence of two members of the Executive Committee of the Dorothy Day Guild for her canonization who had written a book that simply airbrushed Day’s pro-communist activities out of existence. ing lens for understanding Dorothy Day's conversion experience.