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He spent his life helping the homeless and has received his share of honors, including the Walter Driscoll Award and the Dorothy Day Award. Hundreds of men in need have passed through the doors of the Oxford Street Inn over the years. Most of them knew...
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In 1948, according to Fisher, the downtown Jersey City institute was attracting 339 students. Frank Hague did not tolerate upstart clergy and stopped the Catholic Workers, inspired by founder Dorothy Day, from getting any foothold in Jersey City. But...
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Discussion Sunday: What I Learned About Justice from Dorothy Day (by Jim Forest)
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President Obama’s remarks at the the 60th annual National Prayer Breakfast
Democratic National Committee: Blog“If we leave our values at the door, we abandon much of the moral glue that has held our nation together for centuries, and allowed us to become somewhat more perfect a union. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King, Jr. ,...
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He cited the following Americans who have made our nation a "somewhat more perfect" union: Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King, Jr. , Dorothy Day, and Abraham Heschel. Though all are admirable people, they are not...
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Day head of Catholic Worker inside the worker office. (Photo by Judd Mehlman/NY Daily News via Getty Images.) At the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama named Dorothy Day as a “great reformer in American history." This is the same...
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And of course her classic line: "Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily." So she didn't want to be a saint, but she was named a national hero today by the President of the USA. Fascinating. Dorothy Day was the mother of the...
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Day once described herself as "a journalist and a diarist pure and simple" as opposed to a writer of books. As a young girl, she kept a diary and later became a journalist to pay the bills. I would like to think, based on her approach to writing, that...
About Dorothy Day
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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist turned anarchist, social activist and ultimately a devout Catholic. She became known for her social justice campaigns in defense of the poor, forsaken, hungry and homeless. Day, with Peter Maurin, founded the Catholic Worker movement in 1933, which espoused nonviolence... Full Article
