Volume 27, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1981
Dorothy Day (1897–1980)
By J.M. Cameron
Dorothy Day died on November 29 and this death will make a difference to many people, not all of them her co-religionists. She has spoken of her life in two autobiographical volumes, From Union Square to Rome (1938) and The Long Loneliness (1952). As a girl and as a young woman she was changed in mind and sensibility by her reading of Kropotkin, Dostoevsky, Gorky, and Tolstoy. She early felt committed to the poor and to all victims of injustice; in this respect, though not in others, she reminds us of Simone Weil. For many years she inhabited the left-wing bohemia of the United States. In 1927 she was baptized a Catholic and after some false starts she founded the Catholic Worker movement.
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