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- Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics.
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Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was an American journalist, social activist and anarchist who, after a bohemian youth, became a Catholic without abandoning her social activism. She was perhaps the best-known political radical among American Catholics. [1][2]
Oct 4, 2024 · Dorothy Day (born November 8, 1897, New York, New York, U.S.—died November 29, 1980, New York City) was an American journalist and Roman Catholic reformer, cofounder of the Catholic Worker newspaper, and an important lay leader in its associated activist movement.
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Apr 2, 2014 · Dorothy Day was an activist who worked for such social causes as pacifism and women's suffrage through the prism of the Catholic Church. Updated: Jul 06,...
Apr 6, 2020 · But Dorothy Day was always equal parts “Catholic” and “worker.” Many followers of the Pope found her politics inconvenient and offensive; many leftists thought her faith oppressive and absurd.
Dec 13, 2018 · Dorothy Day was a writer and editor who founded the Catholic Worker, a penny newspaper that grew into a voice for the poor during the Great Depression. As the driving force in what became a movement, Day's unwavering advocacy for charity and pacifism made her controversial at times.
Dorothy Day (November 8, 1897 – November 29, 1980) was co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement along with Peter Maurin. A writer and journalist by trade, she and Maurin founded the Catholic Worker newspaper.
Aug 27, 2001 · The teen-age Day, an inveterate reader, turned her attention away from religion to the social writings of anarchists and revolutionaries like Peter Kropotkin and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon,...
